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Show the h up to tlin kuei's. His general appearance ap-pearance was very jaudy. Tliis native wan oonvertivl when 23 years oM, and in v.ow 7t years of age. His father lived to be 1!10 yearn of age. JTia life lias been spent in lecturing on I tlio condition of his people. He sp. aka twenty lannanes iluentlv. When five or six years old ho saw un Ijdinn woman throw her child to a crocodile that weiftheil 1,000 pounds. The animal missed tho child, and the mother caught it a it ran hack to her begging for its life, when she throw it again. This timo tho crocodile struck it with its claws, tore it into two pierces and ate it very quickly. She then reported her acts to the pagan priest, and he Messed her, saying say-ing to her, ''(Jo sin no more." He also was a cannibal. When he was 7 years old there were twenty-one ministers min-isters who were caught traveling ami prospecting for places to locate churches, and one of these ministers was beheaded every morning by their high priest and his flesh cooked, ami the natives were made to stand in a row and each one was given u part ejf the flesh, nnd they stood and ato it. This was continued every day for twenty -one days, until all of tho ministers were eaten up, and he ate part of twenty-one preachers. j He pays tho natives never do eat one another unless one is taketi in war or as j missionary; that it is a mistaken idea , that they slay one another to eat when this man and that is fat enough to eat; j I that the beasts of tho field never slay one of their kind to prey upon, and that the savages have never gotten to be lower than wild animals. Atlanta Con- j Btihition. ! DINED ON ROASTED MEN. J Tate of n I'ijl Cannibal M ho Claims to ; Have Katen Human l'lf',h. Tlio geneTal curiosity of our entire town was aronsed by the appearance upon our streets of a native of India, who was born npon one of the Fiji islands. Ho wore a very nd or cardinal colored suit of clothes, knee pants, and jacket trimmed with black velvet collar and culls. Ove his shoulder he e arned a clemk that was tied over the left shoulder shoul-der and under the right, made of white aud red ilannel. His head was covered with a blouse that fell down his back, and still over this a sombrero. His shoes : were tied under tho instep with a one- half inuli White braid that wound arounel I |