Show CANNIBALS EAT missionaries ship from friendly islands brings details of awful fate of carl atlan workers seattle wash the barkentine mary EL winkelman which has just juat arrived at wash from tho the friendly or tonga islands in the south sea brings details of the murder and eating by cannibals on savage island near the of the rev hev horatio hopkins and his assistant tho the rev hector laurie mcpherson missionaries of the presbyterian mission on february 6 5 while tho the barkentine lay at tanga tabu in the tonga islands IL canoe load of mission natives front savage island arrived at eua ema bringing news of the butchery the rt tives said that hopkins and were teaching in the mission building which stands on tho the beach in the little harbor of savage island when of tile tho unconverted savages howling war cries and brandishing clubs and spears descended upon pon their quarters and took every one pria prisoner onor the missionaries had about twenty converts undergoing training at the time and only nine converts escaped both missionaries were bound with thongs and were loft left lying on the beach in the tropical sun for several hours while the savages took the native captives inland the cannibals on an returning to the beach carried the missionaries on a litter to the crater of the extinct volcano canine in the center of the island there for two days and nights they held a corroboree and at times could be seen plainly dancing and rev eling by the fugitive mission natives as they stole along the shore while most of the cannibals were sleeping an opportunity came to the captive natives to escape their going was hastened by the siant of two of the cannibal chiefs donning the missionaries clothes the clergymen had already been eaten |