So Aborigines were never Cannibals? Not at all? It never happened?
All the reports are lies?
Not once did they eat human flesh?
This by Lumholtz is all lies?
Mr. White has informed me that the natives south of
the Carpentarian Gulf also are cannibals to some extent.
They never kill anybody for the purpose of eating him, but
the women eat those who die a natural death ; near Moreton
Bay the dead are also eaten, and by their own relatives.
In Western Queensland, at Westlands station on Thompson
river,
a woman belonging to a tribe of civilised blacks gave
birth to a so-called half-caste child— that is, the offspring of a
black mother and a white father. Such half-breeds are not
as a rule much liked, and are therefore usually killed by the
blacks who are in the first stages of civilisation. In this
instance the blacks had indeed been in long intercourse
with white people, and still the child was killed. It was
permitted to live about three weeks, but one day one of the
men put his hand round its neck and held it up till it was
choked to death. Thereupon it was roasted on the fire and
distributed among those present, and eaten most greedily.
Many of the white people at the station were witnesses of
this event. It is not known whether the mother in this
instance ate any of the flesh of her child or not.https://archive.org/details/amongcannibalsa00lumhgoog/page/n10/mode/2up?ref=ol&v...
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