Show A CANNIBALS VIEWS v The Flesh of Black Men Preferred to White Meat Chicago Record I I I dont suppose that there are many men in Chicago if any who can say 1 they have seen and talked cannibal i Ii I canni-bal on his native heath Yet I have I done so and the occasion vas Qneof interest to me and one that I shall never forget The speaker was Father Galligan the well known pastor of St Patricks church oiii the West Side and he was talking to a few of his friends on the subject of his travels inlands in-lands strange to the ordinary run of tourists My cannibal resumed Father Gal ligan lived on one of the islands of the Tonga group dawn in the South Pacific I had been making a tour I of that little known section of the I world and while on one of the larger islands of the group stopped at the house of a priest After I had been there a few days I said to him I understand these people peo-ple practice cannibalism and I have always had a strong curiosity to see and talk to a man who has eaten human hu-man flesh Can you arrange it for me He smiled in answer to my question ques-tion and then told me that he had lived there forty years that all the natives were civilized and Christians and that there had not been a case of cannibalism cannibal-ism on the island in half a century However he continued there are a few old men here who practiced cannibalism can-nibalism in their younger days and I will send for one of them In a few minutes a tall and stately looking old man entered the house and saluted u This is a former cannibal said my host but he only talks his native language Ask him if he has ever eaten human flesh I said 4 Yes frequently when I was a young man was the reply 4 Did you ever eat white men Yes several times And people of ou own color Yes when we made war we ate our captives if we were victorious I not they ate us > 11 Which tasted the best white manor man-or black Black man much the nicest white man too satiN I had learned something and that was the relative taste of black and white mens flesh said Father Gal ligan Whether it holds good generally gen-erally though I dont know The few white men whom the old native had eaten had all been sailors living for i months and years on salted meats and I that ence probably accounted for the differ i |