ADDENDA 
Since writing the foregoing paper we have come across 
a somewhat older text about a similar madness to which 
the peoples of New Guinea are subject. We wish to add 
it to the sources already quoted. It is by a German cap- 
tain, H. Detzner, in his book, Moeurs et Coutumes des 
Papous. Quatre ans chez les Cannibales de Nouvelle 
Guinée (1914-1918), published in French by Payot in 
1935. The events of August 1914 took the author by 
surprise in the course of an exploratory trip through the 
interior of the German colony in New Guinea, and he 
remained there under difficult conditions with a small 
escort during the four years that the war lasted. 
This work gives us a rather personal narrative without 
great precision, but not lacking in interest. It is hard to 
piece together the itinerary of this officer from his often 
vague topographical indications. It would seem that he 
must have approached the valley of the Wahgi, but we 
are not sure of this and cannot even assert it as a proba- 
bility. However that may be, this travel book supplies 
us with the following passage (p. 198) pertinent to our 
inquiry. The scene is in a Houbé village, near Finsch- 
hafen, in a mountainous region near the limits of the 
Markham Valley, therefore far to the east of the Middle 
Wahgi. The manifestation of madness is similar to what 
we know already, although Captain Detzner attributes 
it apparently to abuse of betel nuts and does not men- 
tion mushrooms. 
son, Note préliminaire sur la folie fongique des Kuma. Comptes ren- 
dus Ac. des Sciences, 258, pp. 1593-1598, Feb. 3, 1964; (3) Roger 
Heim, Hier champignons associés 4 la folie des Kuma. Etude de- 
scriptive et iconographie. Cahiers du Pacifique, vol. 7, avec 6 pl. col. 
is 14 pl. phot., fig., mars 1965. 
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