A Ghastly Disclosure.
An extraordinary disclosure was made at Aberdeen the other day, when the Austrian vessel Dub arrived at the port loaded with bones for manure. The captain stated that she got her cargo from Alexandria, and that all the bones from Cairo. They were supposed to be chiefly the bones of giraffes, buffaloes, antelopes, and camels, but when they were put on board, many complete human skeletons were seen amongst them... The captain refused to ship these, and told the natives that he would have no bones of the Christians. The natives demurred. When he inquired where they got them, they told him it was the custom for natives to go in large bodies to battlefields, and then dig in the trenches for the remains of the white men. After collecting the bones, they sold them to merchants, who in their turn ship them to various ports for manure. The captain of the Dub fears that, notwithstanding the precautions he took when loading, a good many human skeletons are mixed up with the others. Many of the natives, he says, followed the line of the hill expedition, and brought in large quantities of human remains.
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 186, 23 August 1888, Page 1
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197A Ghastly Disclosure. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 186, 23 August 1888, Page 1
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