Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-04-09 | Page 8 | We Taste like Boiled Rice

We Taste Like Boiled Rice. Henry Wellington Wack of the New-York New-York bar has written a book called "The Story of the Congo Free State," in which there are some curious anecdotes anec-dotes about cannibalism. He reports, for Instance, a bit of conversation between be-tween the Rev. P. Kohl and a young chief named Kalonda, After speaking of the tribal wars, the missionary continued: con-tinued: "Then you have killed many people?" peo-ple?" "To be sure." "You have carried away and eaten quite a number of women nnd children? chil-dren? Of course," said I, immediately, In order to prevent an explosion of wrath on bis part, "You do not do so any more?" "No," said he, very deliberately. "I do not do so at all now; for formerly we ate a number of men. We used to kill as many as we wanted at the time and take away the rest to fatten. The tlesh of the women and children Is the best." "How does It taste?" I asked of the young boy who was standing near the chief (his father). He answered quite naturally: "It tastes like'bolled rice." The Argonaut.