A Cannibal Feast.
» (PEE PHESB ASSOCIATION.} Stdnev, March 23 A tribal fight took place at Rofsil Inland, New Guinea, and the victors commemorated their success by a can* nibal feast. Twelve hundred captives were sacrificed in the feast. Sir Win. McGregor and partj were attacked by a powerful tribe of natives in the vicinity of the Poorara Eiver, but were repulsed by the Europeans. There were do losses on Sir Wm. McGregor's side.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 271, 24 March 1894, Page 2
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73A Cannibal Feast. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 271, 24 March 1894, Page 2
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