Two German Crews Killed and Eaten

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 3, 18 June 1885, Page 3

Two German Crews Killed and Eaten

A WOMAN AMONG THB VICTIMS. a-- Z->r — : *'*■■ .!:■• The Oologne Gazette publishes \ extracts from .* letter datedClooktown, Australia, January 30, and^ntten bj an officer of the German', gunboai Hyse, giving the following particulaiof the fate of two German merchant Vessels, whose contents were plundered and whosecrjews were killedandeatenby South Sea Islanders. " Our Christstas holidays," says the writer, " we spent near . the Anachoretes Islands, situated 'to the north of New Guinea. Some of the^ natives of those Islands . we proceeded to examine, as it was reported thaifcthe natives of the (neighboring) .Hermit Islands, a. warlike race who had been severely punished #; by us two years ago, had again attacked two vessels (a two-masted and a three-iSas-ed schooner), and then plundered jfiid burnt them, afterwards killing the -crews and feasting on them at .a * cannibal • banquet. / The news was brought by a native of the Anachoretes Islands* who, as a youth, had Iteen carried off' as a prisoner of war to the Hermit Islands, and who had recently escaped and returned home. A native of Manilla living at the Matupi, to yrhom the intelligence was communicated, reported the facts to the German Consul, Herr Hernsheim. •'Our investigations have,- unfortunately, confirmed these statements in avfSiy particular. Among the articles —relics— of the two burnt vessels, was a woman's chemise, marked. with the initial's 'A.P.', and we succeeded in ascertaining that among those on board the three-masted schooner was a white woman named Annie Pagels."