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Show DINEO ON ROASTED MEN. Tad erf a FIJI Caoulbal Who Clalma Have Eateo Human FleUi. The general cariosity of oar entire town was aroused by the appearance upon our streets of a native of India, who was born upon one of the Fiji islands. He wore a very red or cardinal colored suit of clothes, knee pants, and jacket trimmed with black velvet collar and cuffs. Over bis shoulder he carried a cloak that was tied over the left shoulder shoul-der and under the right, made of white and red flannel. His head was covered with a blouse that fell down his back, and still over this a sombrero. His shoes were tied tinder the instep with a one-half one-half inch white braid that wound around the leg np to the knees. His general appearance ap-pearance was very gaudy. , This native was converted when 23 years old, and is now 74 years of age. I His father lived to be 130 years of age. j His life has been spent in lecturing on i the condition of his people. He speaks twenty languages fluently. When live or six years old he paw an Indian woman throw her child to a crocodile that weighed 1,000 pounds. The animal missed the child, and the mother caught it as it ran back to her begging for its life, when she threw it again. This time the crocodile struck it with its claws, ! tore it into two pieces and ate it very 1 quickly. She then reported her acts to the pagan priest, aud he blessed her, saying say-ing to her, "Go sin no more." He also was a cannibal. When he was 7 years old there were twenty-one ministers min-isters who were cnught traveling and prospecting for places to locate churches, and one of these ministers was beheaded every morning by their high priest and his flesh cooked, and the natives were made to stand in a row and each one was given a part of the flesh, and they stood and ate it. This was continued every day for twenty one days, until all of the ministers were eaten up, and he ate part of twenty-one preachers. He says the natives never do eat one another unless one is taken in war or as a missionary; that it is a mistaken idea that they slay one another to eat when this man and that is fat enough to eat; that the beasts of the field never slay one of their kind to prey npon, and that the savages have never gotten to be lower than wild animals. Atlanta Constitution. |