Show WHENCE THE WORD CANNIBAL Eaters of Human Flesh Were Inhabitants Inhabitants Inhabitants tants of the West Indian Island of Caniba When Columbus landed on the island of Haiti a huge Image banquet was given glyen In in r his honor by a native chieftain andon andon 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 nearby nearby near near- by Island of Caniba had casually taken out of their persons It was further explained that the people of Caniba known today as ag I Porto Rico were addicted to the habit of eating human flesh and that to obtain obtain ob ob- tain this gastronomic luxury they were ere accustomed to undertake armed raids upon the time Haitians and other neighbor r folks Hence as we learn the origin of ot the word cannibal |