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CHAPTER IX
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These people eat the congealed blood of their enemies.
The blood is poured into bamboo reeds, and in the course of time, being corked up, it hardens.

The filled reeds are hung under the roofs of the huts, and when a person desires to treat his friends very hospitably the reeds are broken and the contents devoured.
"The black natives of Australia are all professed cannibals.

Dr.Carl Lumholtz, a Norwegian scientist, spent many months in studying them in the wilds of the interior.

He was alone among these savages, who are extremely treacherous.

Wearing no clothing whatever, and living in nearly every respect as monkeys do, they know no such thing as gratitude, and have no feeling that can be properly termed human.


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