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courtesies from their wives, beating them unmercifully

~ when they feel proper respect has not been shown them. The men hunt gaine and make war on other trizes and the women do all the work0 A savage warrior when not engaged in hunting or war, sleeps a lot and smokes a‘most continously during his waking hours. Girls are bought from their parents while mere. children by the pa~ent of so m~‘iy cows, goats,etc. The King can take any woman of the tribe whether married or single he desires to be. his wife. The parents of young girls taken to wife by the King of a tribe feel honored and fall on their knees and thank the King for taking her.

	“The prince of a tribe is born a headsman and as soon as he is able to wield a knife he is called upon to perform the duty of cuttin off the heads of criminals who ar~ condemned to death by the King for general crimes. Those condemned by the witch doctor for witchcraft are executed by dismemberment or fire as described above.



	My husband was a cannibal headsman and performed this duty of cutting off persons heads when a boy and after being
J civilized in America this feature of his early life bore so / heavily upon his mind that it was instrumental in driving
him insane. By custom a prince was born a he~dsman and. it was compulsory that he execute criminals. He died in an insane ward of the New Jersey ~3tate Hospital.




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