Show WHENCE THE WORD CANNIBAL eaters of human flesh were inhabitants of the west indian island of caniba when columbus landed on the island of haiti st s huge banquet was given in his honor by a native chieftain and on that occasion he chanced to notice that two or three of the aboriginal guests bore scars on their naked bodies suggesting serious wounds in response to his polite inquiry they said that the scars represented bites which gentlemen from the nearby island of canaba had casually taken out of 0 their persons it mas further explained that the people of caniba known today its as porto rico were addicted to the habit of eating bunian flesh and that to obtain tills this gastronomic luxury they were accustomed to undertake armed raids upon the haitians Hait ians anil and other neighbor I 1 folks 0 I 1 ks ile hence ce as we learn the origin of 0 the hie ni ord cannibal |