CANNIBALS' MENUS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8842, 2 April 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

CANNIBALS' MENUS.

Dr.. Lumhoez, the Norwegian naturalist, has just published ft book entitled 14 Among Cannibals," which lias awakened a good deal of interest. Dr. Luraholz is quite a connoisseur in cannibal cookery, and gives much information respecting peculiar delicacies. The natives of the Australian Archipelago, he says, often slaughter their children from culinary motives. They regard human flosh as the most delicious of all meat, but not the flesh of white persons ; that, they say, has a nasty, salty tasto. What they like is the flesh of blacks or Chinamen. They like blacks best, but if they cannot fret a black they will eat a Chinaman. They say a black has a more delicate flavour, because ho feeds chiefly on vegetables and eats no salt; but a fat, ricefed Chinamen is riot to be despised. Dr. Lumholz declares that if the aborigines in Queensland were allowed their own way, and Chinese immigrants were not carefully guarded by the police, the Chinese question there would find a summary solution at the hands of t-Jio natives themselves, and would soon cease to trouble the Colonial Secretary. Ho says that when he was travelling in North and Eastern Australia t.ho blacks in his service made no secret of their liking for human flesh. The very thought of it used to make their eyes glisten. When they were asked what part of the human body tasted the best, they always indicated the ribs. The head they never eat. laimholz also says it is a mistake to suppose that cannibals look more repulsive than other savages. Many of them have most gentle, peaceful-looking faces. Women as well as men take part in the feasts off human flesh.