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Title: Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Walker, H. Wilfrid
Subjects: Walker, H. Wilfrid Ethnology
Publisher: London : Witherby
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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astonished beyondwords at their good fortune. As they passedthrough our police and carriers, I feel sure thatthey suspected us of some trick on them. A bathe in the cool, clear river close by wasdelightful after a very hard day, but we, of course,had an armed guard of police around us, andpractically bathed rifle in hand, as the growthwas dense on the opposite bank. Our people seemed to be quite enjoying them-selves, looting the houses, and one of the policewas chasing a pig in this village, when he wasattacked by a man with a club. The policemanwas unarmed, but immediately wrenched theclub from the mans hand and smashed his skuUin, and the body lay barely one hundred yards fromour tent. This was too tantaUzing for oiu- carriers,who came up and begged permission to eat it,although they knew fuU well that Monckton hadgiven orders that there was to be no cannibalismamong them. Needless to remark, the requestwas refused, but they had the pluck to ask againbefore the expedition was over.
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A PAPUAN GIEL. (124 MAN BETTER THAN PIG 125 My boy Arigita had often eaten human meat,and as he expressed it in his quaint pidgin EngUsh, Pig no good, man he very good. It can beimagined it must be really good, as the Papuanthinks a great deal of pig. We had a good appetitefor supper, in spite of the fact that we ate it withina few yards of a half-burnt heap of human skullsand bones, which appeared quite fresh. Ourvarious tribes were all camped separately, andthey looked very picturesque round their differentcamp fires, with their spears stuck in the groundin their midst, their clubs and shields by theirsides, and the firelight flickering upon their wild-looking faces. To our astonishment, our late man prisonerreturned and said that his chief wished to see usthat night. At once there was a great commotionamong our police and the Notus, who all spokeexcitedly together, and were \manimous that thisimplied treachery, and that behind the chief wouldcome his men, who would attack us unawar

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