These people used to be useful for something - not that long ago, even. Now, it's the opposite. They're the savages! They're infecting the world with nonsense! --------------------------------- HERE BE CANNIBALS RECENT CANNIBALISM IN NEW GUINEA ‘It was difficult to believe that these kind and friendly people were cannibals.’ Whenever the men left the huts, either to go hunting or to go to the fields, they [the Kukukukus] always took their weapons with them. They were always ready either for defence or attack. They maintained a constant distrust of their neighbours; but towards us, who were complete strangers, their attitude was different. I gave them various presents in exchange for the specimens I gathered for the National Museum of Denmark; I joked with them, showed them photographs of other natives and let them listen to the tape recorder. They had an attractive, spontaneous sense of humour, and there was something very touching in the pleasure they evidentl...