DANGERS FACED
EXPLORERS IN PAPUA ENCOUNTERS WITH CANNIBALS NO CASUALTIES (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Rec. 9.20 p.m.) Rabaul, July 22. After frequent encounters with hostile cannibals wearing wigs of human hair and carrying daggers made of human thigh bones, an assistant magistrate, Mr J. G. Hides, and a patrol officer, Mr L. J. O’Malley, returned to Port Moresby after six months’ dan-’ gerous exploration in the interior of Papua. Their patrol crossed from Strickland river to Purari river. Most of the route was over a plateau 7000 . feet high. They discovered previously unknown country consisting of a _ wonderfully fertile valley carrying a big population of natives of a fine type and definite Asiatic characteristics.
The patrol suffered no casualties in its encounters with the natives. The number of attackers’ casualties is unknown. The whole party was troubled by extreme hunger, cold and exposure, three natives dying.
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Southland Times, Issue 25343, 23 July 1935, Page 7
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