Word: cannibalisme
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Born. To William Buehler Seabrook, 57, writer on voodoo, cannibalism and himself (Witchcraft, Jungle Ways, No Hiding Place), and Constance Kuhr Seabrook, 31, his third wife: a son, William Kuhr, 7 lb. 3 oz.; in Rhinebeck, N.Y.
These desperate homegoers will return to many villages that have been destroyed and towns that have been razed or are filled with strangers. They will bring with them orphans, old and insane folk. They will bring scurvy, trachoma, malaria, typhus, and dysentery from eating grass and earth. Starvation may be...
Married. William Buehler Seabrook, 56, travel writer, student of cannibalism, voodoo, primitive sex customs (Jungle Ways, The Magic Island); and Constance Kuhr, 31, newspaperwoman; he for the third time, she for the first; in Sharon, Conn.
From his bamboo and Saksak palm episcopal palace in Keita he and his 54 priests and nuns (including Father James Hennessy of Boston and Father John Conley of Philadelphia) range all through the innumberable islands, in launches and little outrigger canoes. They still encounter an occasional intimation of cannibalism. When...
* Most celebrated example: the Dumaru, which sank in an electrical storm in the Pacific. The crew of one of her lifeboats sailed 1,300 miles to the Philippine Islands, one of the longest open-boat trips since Captain Bligh's 3,618-mile voyage in 1789. The starving survivors...