PRACTICE OF CANNIBALISM
SURVIVAL IN NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. REVELATIONS BY CAPTAIN WILKINS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 12. (Received June 12, at 5.5 p.m.) Captain Wilkins states that Ids recent explorations in Northern Australia disclosed that some of the natives in the Goyder and King River districts still practiced some promiscuous cannibalism. He gave an instance of the case of the baby which, after being buried for two days, was taken up and eaten. A young man was killed in a duel because be was so fat, and Ins enemies decided to eat him. The scarcity of fat was one of the chief causes of these practices.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19505, 13 June 1925, Page 12
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