These people eat the congealed blood of their enemies.
The blood is poured into bamboo reeds, and in the course of time,
being corked up, it hardens. The filled reeds are hung under the
roofs of the huts, and when a person desires to treat his friends
very hospitably the reeds are broken and the contents devoured.
"The black natives of Australia are all professed cannibals. Dr.
Carl Lumholtz, a Norwegian scientist, spent many months in
studying them in the wilds of the interior. He was alone among
these savages, who are extremely treacherous. Wearing no clothing
whatever, and living in nearly every respect as monkeys do, they
know no such thing as gratitude, and have no feeling that can be
properly termed human. Only fear of the traveler's weapons
prevented them from slaying him, and more than once he had a
narrow escape. One of the first of them whom he employed looked
more like a brute than a man. 'When he talked,' says the doctor,
'he rubbed his belly with complacency, as if the sight of me made
his mouth water.' This individual was regarded with much respect
by his fellows because of his success in procuring human flesh to
eat. These aborigines say that the white man's flesh is salt and
occasions nausea.
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