A TARTAR DUEL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 14, 14 December 1883, Page 2

A TARTAR DUEL.

The Howosti. inta» recent issue states ' that the 'forehead fight, An* brutal combat. inherited from the old. Turks,' stilt survives^in some, disiricts among the Tartars' of the jCrimea. A duel of thg savage kind took place a short |ime ago m aCifmean village, " 'The report .of it is given by a physician :wjw was called to attend to the defeased combat taut.' The two foe? tss their stand !at a measured, instance, from each other ;with theiv heads bent forward; 'cfyepjjat j, given signal, they rush at one another, •butting forehead against -forehead, like 'two goats. 'TheJ^m'aVfler qf thp duel as the man who uses apv .^e|pqnjeicbptr ' ' In. thej recent case blopd streamed from tli^ foreheads qf iA bpth. , semi-savages ;' neyei'thclpss they continued butting at each pthejr* 2 f paasi6n, .until ra^ length ' jpne. of them iell earth: "' Jle gathered 'up ajl his ' i'emajning h , stvenjgth; ty\ 4*aw his kuifp from'pjo 1 girdle, and, with one determined stvqke he then, cut a wide gash across his. thrqat, JThe physician states tbaijhe '

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fll^^Hwte on the part of the beaten mani*r?to.*e regarded sw a direct Conse* u -^ <>f t,,e i n 1 ur y done to the brain ;hy tl^featful concusjions of the fight.