NEW HEBRIDES.
MISSIONARY’S VIVID STORY. [A. and N.Z. Cable Association.] SYDNEY. July 24. Pastor Stewart, a Seventh Day Adventist missionary, in a further condemnation of the condominium system in the Now Hebrides, said that in Malekula, the wildest part of the group, judging from the native practices and the plenitude of arms, the Condominium government was more imaginary than real. Tie also stated the custom of burying infants alive had reduced the female population to thirty per cent. Old men were strangled and cannibalism was rife. The chief of the North Malekula was known as a cannibal king. Ancestral worship was responsible for the wholesale sacrifice of pigs, as many as two hundred being killed sometimes at one feast for the purpose of appeasing the dead.
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Grey River Argus, 25 July 1922, Page 5
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126NEW HEBRIDES. Grey River Argus, 25 July 1922, Page 5
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