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ONLY MURDEREAS, · Convicted murderers, it might be in agined, are not the sort of servants one would choose to travel with in the lonely. parts of the tropics. In Papua, however, when Mr. Humphries had to set out into the wilds on patrolling work, and required a number of carriers, he simply simply sent is the gaol and borrowed a few homicides writes Mr. Robert Lyand in the Daily News.
Judge Murray, in an interesting preface to Mr. Humphries's book, "Patrolling in Papun" explains that the white man's natural prejudice against murderers would be out of place in Papua
Most of Mr. Humphries's carriera were convicted murderers, and, as he says, people not familiar with the Territory night have been afraid to trust them bus no one has this feeling in Papan, for the ordinary Papuan murder is not a crime na we consider it-it is, as I said, some years ago "sometimes a duty sometimes a necessary part of social etiquette, sonictimes a relation and always a passion. So a Papuan mur- decer is really no worse than any other man and likely to be just as reliable as his neighbour.
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Here, one would think, is evidence on the side of those eynics who contend that mora- lity is all a matter of climate. But what a shocking climate!
À CANDIDATE, FOR MATRIMONY, Murder is so well thought of in Papum, thit among some tribes one is not regarded as a man if one has not committed a murder.. No vlecent women would marry a man who had not killed somebody or other,
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The tribe refuses to believe that it is trong
take life under such cie cumstances. IF they did not do so, they will tell you, they never would be
Then, nor t
to take a wife, and the tribe would causa to be a tribe. Of course, nowadays, wh
when these murders are discovered, the culprit is arrested sooner or later, and sen- tenced in most cases to death.
But even this
has not deterred the eme penalty Kotarian, for, as I write, the police are scour that you sing in search of a successful cindiate for matrimony
by
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Mr. Humphries not only was accompanied murderers on his travels, but mingled freely with them at various points of the journey. He learned from them something of the etiquette of cannibalism, and, tells us some interesting facts that should find a place in any Papuan edition of Mrs. Beeton that may be published:
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sometimes round my shoulders, as he frequently did when we were talking peace," and times too, when be stroked my arms and bare knees, after the fashion of thess people, I could not help bat shudder, because i know that this man would have gnawed my bones with the greatest refish if he bad bad the chance, or more truly (he had the chane, but he didn't know it), if he had had the courage to put his thoughts into action.
Mr. Humphrica's book, however, is not all about murderers. The natives appear to have other customs as well. For instance, after a wedding, the mother-in-law has to
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