Show SAVE THE PIGS TO BUY WIVES one reason Z why 7 y C cannibalism nobal ism flour floun bishes in the new hebrides the new Ile hebrides brides aie still point by hordes of man and man eating savages precisely althey as they were in the lays days of cook OA owing ing to international jealousy mis sl onrey enterprise has been able to 10 accomplish little or nothing on the ma of the islands indeed the in verlois of 0 most of them remain lu to this day unexplored and the tribesmen lave bave never seen a white face nevertheless ne they all own firearms which they have obtained from the th coast dEll dellelo els and labor recruit ng vessels with these they go gunning for one another in order to replenish their gardels lar deis dels for they are cannibals to a man not cannibals occasionally and through of circumstance as are some of tile the central african tie nc groes the new I 1 Hebr ldean native eats human flesh habitually because he likes it and because it costs nothing and is easily procurable this Is shown by the fact that although pigs abound on most of the islands they ire are rarely killed tor for food such stich a proceeding would be re 9 added as sinful extravagance for pigs constitute the currency cui rency of the country and can be exchanged tor for tobacco and beads or for wives the greatest of all luxuries for 20 pigs one can buy a really good looking girl wife who iho w will ill delight her lord and master in her youth louth and slave tor for him from daylight to lo dark in the yarn yam plantations when shy gets past her prime |