. Errance parmi les sauvages de la mer du Sud et à Bornéo et aux Philippines. M Moncktons, plus tard, rapporto au gouvernement). L'explication de ce que nous avons appris bientôt du Notus, et plus tard elle a été confirmée par nos prisonniers. Quand les Dobodurasstacapture un ennemi, ils le torrent lentement à mort, le mangeant pratiquement vivant. Quand les heis sont presque morts, ils font un trou sur le côté de la tête et prennent le cerveau avec un peu de cuillère en bois. Ces cerveaux, qui étaient éatenwarm et frais, ont été considérés comme une grande déUcacy.sans aucun doute le Notus a reconnu certains de ces parents parmi les reliques épouvantables. Nous nous sommes reposés à terre

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. Wanderings among South sea savages and in Borneo and the Philippines. m Moncktons later reportto the government). The explanation for thiswe soon learnt from the Notus, and later it wasconfirmed by our prisoners. When the Dobodurascapture an enemy they slowly torture him todeath, practically eating him alive. When heis almost dead they make a hole in the side ofthe head and scoop out the brains with a kindof wooden spoon. These brains, which were eatenwarm and fresh, were regarded as a great deUcacy.No doubt the Notus recognised some of theirrelatives amid the ghastly relics. We rested ashort time in this vUlage, and our people were soonbusy spearing pigs and chickens, and looting. Theloot consisted of all sorts of household articlesand implements, including wooden piUows, bowls, and dishes, tapa cloth of quaint designs, stone adzes, beautiful feather ornaments, bau-baus or native bamboo pipes, wooden spears, and a great quantity of shell and dogs-toothnecklaces. We saw three or four of the enemy scouting onthe edge of the forest, and I was asked to try to. A GHASTLY EELIC. Papuan Skull showing method employed by Dobodura Cannibals for extracting the brains of their victims ; also Dobodura stone War Club and Tapa Cloth. [118 FIREARMS A NOVELTY 119 pick one off, but before I could jBre they had dis-appeared. Then several Notus ran out brandish-ing spears, and danced a war-dance in front ofthe forest, but their invitation was not accepted.We next saw several armed scouts on a smalltree about five hundred yards away, and we alllined up and gave them a volley ; whether we hitany of them or not it is hard to say, but theydropped down immediately into the long grass.At any rate, it must have astonished them to hearthe bullets whistling round them, even if theywere not hit, as it was the first time they hadever heard the report of a firearm of any descrip-tion. Some of the police went out to sneakthrough the long grass, and we soon heard shots, and they came back with the sp

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