"Among Cannibals"

AUSTRALIA / EXPLORATIONS 

a book from Carl Lumholtz / explorer & scientist of the Royal Society of Sciences of Norway / lived 4 years in Northern Australia in the 1880s 

wrote that his hosts were "natives of Australia who never come into contact with the white man" 

interesting tales of hunts of kangaroos & wallabies / skirmishes between native groups / descriptions of the boomerangs - all were not curved / the "nolla-nolla" clubs used by hunter-warriors = waddy or nulla-nulla

Suddenly an old man uttered a terrible war-cry, and swung his bundle of spears over his head.

Lumholtz saw few deaths in combat / elder women rescued the fallen ones / defeated warriors lost their wives but kept their lives 

on cannibalism

The greatest delicacy known to the Australian native is human flesh. The very thought of talgoro makes his eye sparkle.

the explorer had to leave in a rush => guides betrayals 

this book was published in 1889 / interesting primary source

[ CONTEXT ] = northern Australia / history / explorers / cannibalism