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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1970-04-09, Page 19• 4°4 4 r'? at • • ' GODSRIPH ONA/;r8TA at ThURSDA.Y Mk' ,•••;•'' • The other day a couple of men decided to go and see how things were in New Guinea. Here are extracts from their revealing report:. " . begin by finding I have lost my glasseS, but eventually they are found on the- nose ot—a a native, wito is stumbling around beehtise he cannot see through them. Next day, woken at 5;30 a4n., the radio filters.through: 'I Will make you fishers Of men.' Cross a river on a slippery log with a .drop of 30.. feet to the 40' rocks and roaring waters below. • I mustn't 'look down, but I am incapable of looking anywhere else. I slip and fall between the fork of a log. A guide -carrier helps me across and from that time on I hold more men's hands in a week than I have held in five ^ years. The carrier's legs are • running blood from the leech wounds. I wonder what leeches - live on in the off season. The ' carriers have their fun when they cut down a tree to burn and it falls on two of their number: 0 Everybody. falls about laughing. Another nine miles to go and I am dead tired-, so I have a small boy walk beside me, to pick me up when I fall. ",September 5th. At 7 a.tp. the whole ground flutters before my eyes. It is completely covered with brilliant black and • • ,• . Q to •„ yellOw butterflies which'. open and close their wings. A l'olgalga Man Comes into camp at IA 14M. They are still practising - ' Cannibals and ate two of their number three -months ago. They were short .of food, but their 'lunches' • •were,2 unpopular anyway,, They are muscular people and wear droopy' Napoleonichat-wigs made of. human hair; dogs' teeth necklaces and .G-strings, decorated with shells and beads. The native police. stand by With„ rifles, just in. case anyOne becomes hungry! That1 night I ' Couldn't .sleep, Wit finally dreamed that I was a trout in, restaurant tank Waiting for a cannibal to spear me. When I - crept outside to look, there was a steady stream of fireflies in a glowing green clOud, coming from a hollow log. , "September 6th. Raggiani birds of Paradise play 'in the trees. They have irridescent gr,een faces, yellow necks, brown bodies and brilliant salmon pink plumes. They may be legally hlinted only with spears and arrows. One of the policemen shoots one, a beautiful bird, six years old. He will end up as a brown and yellow fly whisk in the Mount Hagen market. The sun is very hot and the track is studded with lumps of white limestone sticking up like tombstones, Along the edges are tail spikes of. violet orchida and pitcher plants with flowers a foot long.* In one flower is a halklissolved spider, struggling in a Pool of digestive juices at the bottom of the flower: The ,.Strickland Li one of the, great, rivers of'New Guinea and we ; wash from" an, outcrop of rock which overlooks the Strickland Gorge. There are whirlpools; the basic tactic. for negotiating which is to drive at them and burst through the centre. To try to . go around is to be 'sucked doh. " the other:side of the • river a sheer white limestone cliff rises• hundreds of feet to a plateati. Here the mysterious Hewa people live. They too, are )very aggressive cannibals and only two villages have ever been .visited. , "`September 7th. . The Poraiaga women sell us kau-kau (sweet "potato). The natives live almost entirely on it and roast it on hot stones. They eat • 30 pounds a day on" the march and • get all their food needs from it: An Australian .scientist announces, while we are in New. Guinea, that he has found. that colonies of rare bacteria live in the stomachs of the Highland people, which. turn the kau-kau into •protein they cannot get • blue, bays. TOday, one of the bays is lined with stinking rotting hulks, hihabited by poor natives. The population of Port —Moresby, -46,000, _three_ Aparters black. They -come from all • over the territory and find themselves trapped by low • - wages, unemployment • and simple pride which prevents , them from 'returning home to admit they have failed. Port Moresby and New Guinea were hardly known to the Australians • before the war,' when the 'Japanese began to Push south. . • New Guinea. became the great . bulwark against the Yellow Peril, • whiCh meant the Chinese and Indonesians. •The Australian government • still, ‘pours • 100 million dollars a Five -Year • Plan, but the new administration is headed by a man with no , interest in New Guinea until he was appointed Minister for Crop insurance protects you against the hazards of a from any. other solae. We pa the women In- salt . which Is. great mrityk Later In the day a ; POP -cell= shoots a cassowary bird and - the 'natives- prepare for eating, 'testing out its wing quills with their teeth, ripping out the feathers for ornament The bird is the- size of small emu and weighs 40 pounds. They gut it; split open -the thighs with sharp bamboo, wrap it in ferns and banana leaves, and cook it on hot stones. It tasks like fresh beef. One ,of the men tell a us that you cook a human being rn exactly" the same Way. a 1 , "September 9th. Passi Man wearing a yellow ball•point pen through his nose and a bundle ,of leaves. I say `mambo' to a man covered in thick mud (to ,keep him warm) and a small boy wearing nothing but a pair of bright ochre •spectacles painted on his face. Another man "is wearing a trouser zipper round hia forehead, a ,..coating of pig grease on his body' and very little else. Further on we ,pass two men carrying -a long pole over their shoulders. Hanging from the middle of the pole is an old lady in a string bag. She has a stiff. neck and they are taking her to the mission for, treatment, there being no ambulance service in these parts. Du.nais a Very soPhiaticated language. tonal like, Chinese. The Weru Means at one speech level and 'take' at ant;ither. . The housebor" told to ;VII 1.1chicken - and put it in the refngeratoef • merely plucked it and put it naked into the 7efrigerat or • where it Was found bine with ,cold.' The missionaries in New Guinea are probably the best • argument for , Christianity around at the pres6nt time. `rimy •teach the people'," learn' their . languages and eitst9Msa and even treat them like human beings. They have , an uneasy relationship' With officialdom, because in places like.' Bougainville, they advise the people how to stand up for their rights. 'The adininistrator, Mr. Hay, is wearing yards of ribbons and ti gold lace collar, and doesn't look half as decorative as the natives who run to yellow faces, red wigs,and liberal coats of pig grease. They look on in amazement as Mr. Hay inspects a police guard of honor. We fly off • pondering that it is too late for 'them to learn." with 500,stW a the universi and 1,51000 cliildrOn high school in a country or two rnillion, The AuSimalians' will than -ten -yaw and there wdn't*,he anyone capable of taking over, . The- Army,modelled on the • Gurkhas, has a current ,strength • of 3,00.0 men, with 600 Australian officera and non corns, Conditioneare' very good; the ,recruit is encouraged to think for ,himself as a member of an elite. corps, The army is the one unified force in the country, which ,. breliks down tribal barriers. There is no other 'unified group which a politician could use as a power base, the concept of unity being quite foreign to New Guinearts who PORT MORESBY • Port Moresby was once very beautiful, with fine. off -shore' islands, a coral reef and clear have been brought up as tribes, isolated from one another by the geography. •There are 500 distinct languages • spoken, • a sixth of. all go languages in the world. •No trade unions and • really only one effective political party. The main hope for the country lies in the University of Papua and New Guinea, from which the first. 500 graduates will emerge in 1971. In a country with only •four graduates and a respect for learning, any native will be assured of a good job. The most talented student is Leo Hannett, . a young Bourgainyillean, . who. doesn't think his country is ready for independence yet, but thinks 'BQMO Rule must con* 00011, with Australia carrying. on defence and foreign I)011eYe •Hamlett ' believes-- eivilliAtion--. must .be t#100 to the villages, rather than placing schools and' hospitalk in towns, since every.' man' is a 14adowner and:bbra to' village life. The New .aaineans are not used to r white mans' luxuries and would not'ohject to grass - huts for schools and medical, services, which offer jusy bare essentials. r You cannot help thinking these 'cannibals' have a, more realistic outlook on their economy an some reputedly 'civilized' peoples, who have also been brought as tribes. 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