Word: papuan
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...average man knows nothing about murder as it should be done until he has read of the finesse of the Papuans. Papuan children are schooled in the rigid etiquette of "bumping off" their neighbors and no male Papuan may reach his majority without several notches on his spear-handle. The spirit of this spirited people may be gleaned from the words of one who had dispatched a friend on the banks of a river: "He wanted me to carry him across, but he looked very heavy. Rather than be so rude as to refuse him, I killed...