PAPUA EXPLORATION
PATROL FIGHTS CANNIBALS. DANGEROUS SIX MONTHS’ TRIP (United Press Association—Copyright.) RABAUL, July 22. After frequent encounters with hostile cannibals wearing wigs of human hair, and carrying daggers made of human thigh-bones, an assistantmagistrate, Mr J. G. Hides, and a patrol officer, Mr L. J. O’Malley, returned to Port Moresby from a dangerous six months’ exploration trip in the interior of Papua. Their patrol crossed! from the Strickland River to the Purari River, most of the route being over a plateau 7 CO<) feet high. They discovered previously unknown country consisting of a wofiderfully fertile valley carrying a big population of natives of a fine type, with definite Asiatic characteristics.
The patrol suffered no casualties ip its encounters with the natives'. The number of the attackers’ casualties is unknown. The whole party was troubled by extreme hunger, cold and exposure, three natives dying.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 239, 23 July 1935, Page 5
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