Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1905 — A [?] S[?] [ARTICLE]

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Hands a ,u ■>. —....s t.ii Favo<‘i ; .s ■CKisJ&Ath the XimbunMus. . Returned to tEelr cld home after 20 years spent In educating the natives of darkest Africa in the great htmefitff to be gained from Ch.istiaaity, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Mead, who a:e visiting " with Dr. Babbitt at 721 Baeah stieet, tell strange tales of cannibals and struggles in savage Africa that driva fear into the hearts of the uninitiated. Talking to a Journal reporter on coations In Africa, Mr. Mead said: '!■ * Malange, a part oi Angola, Airica, w« worked among the Kimbundu tribe, one of the most intelligent of the African races. About a hundred miles north of the main village of the Kim- ■ bundus is a large cannibal camp, aT | which one of the men in my party had an experience he does not care l to repeat. | “The man had been sent with presents to the chief of the cannibal tribe. Now, if a cannibal chief dues not accept a gift, it is time for the gift giv- . ■ er to beware. Our man’s gilt of cloth I was refused. I “On leaving the chief’s hut our max noticed a number of human heads ox poles, and came across a big pot ix which was simmering a stew. Tx his horror, he found it contained human hands, shin bones and other parts . of the body. “A little cannibal girl volunteered 1 the cheerful information that the stew was made of victims of a war, and that unless our man took good care h« would flavor the stew for the morrow. I “At that our man thought out a plan. He went to the chief aud told ‘ him that, seeing he was at war with a I tribe he would need powder, and if the chief would allow him to go back t® the village he would furnish his men with powder. The chief fell into the trap and allowed the man to escape. “Our man got his comrades together and told them their lives depended upon reaching their homes as Boon as possible. Needless to say they escaped, pursued by a band of cannibals, whs soon gave up the chase. “It is only during .times of war that the cannibals eat human flesh. At other times they are like any other savage people.—Manchester, (N. H.) Cor. Boston Journal.