by our presence � which information she extended to every arrival scarcely were we seated however when she changed her tune while the company manifested intense excitement her cries became eager and piercing from a distance came answering cries in men s voices which blended into a wild chant that sounded savage of blood and war then through of tropical foliage appeared a procession of savages naked save for gaudy they advanced slowly uttering deep cries of triumph and exaltation from young carried on their shoulders were mysterious objects of considerable weight hidden from view by of green leaves nothing but pigs innocently fat and to a turn were inside those but the men were carrying them into camp in imitation of old times when they carried in long pig now long pig is not pig long pig is the for human flesh and these descendants of man a king s i o the of the son at their head brought in the pigs to table as of old their had brought in their slain enemies every now and then the procession halted in order that the should have every advantage in uttering particularly ferocious shouts of victory of contempt for their enemies and of desire so two generations ago witnessed the bodies of slain warriors wrapped in palm leaves carried to banquet at the ti at another time at the ti he observed a curiously carved vessel of wood and on looking into it his eyes fell upon the disordered members of a human skeleton the bones still fresh with moisture and with of flesh clinging to them here and there has often been regarded as a fairy story by men who dislike perhaps the notion that their own savage have somewhere in the past been to similar captain cook was rather upon the subject until one day in a harbor of new he deliberately tested the matter a native happened to have brought on board for sale a nice sun dried head at cook s orders of the flesh were cut away and handed to the native who devoured them to say the least captain cook was a rather at any rate by that act he supplied one ascertained fact of which science had been badly in need little did he dream of the existence of a certain group of islands thousands of miles away where in subsequent days there would arise a curious suit at law when an old chief of would be charged with of character because he persisted in asserting that his body was the living of captain i i cook s great toe it is said that the failed to prove that the old chief was not the tomb of the s great toe and that the suit was dismissed i suppose i shall not have the chance in these days to see any long pig eaten but at least i am already the possessor of a duly in shape curiously carved over a century old from which has been drunk the blood of two one of those captains was a mean man he sold a as good as new what of the fresh white paint to a chief but no sooner had the captain sailed away than the whale boat dropped to pieces it was his fortune some time afterward to be wrecked of all places on that particular island the chief was ignorant of and but he had a primitive sense of and an equally primitive conception of the economy of nature and he balanced the account by eating the man who had cheated him we started in the cool dawn for ferocious little that and screamed and bit and fought one another quite of the fragile on their backs and of the slippery loose rocks and yawning the way led up an ancient road through a of trees on every side were the of a one time dense population wherever the eye could penetrate the thick growth glimpses were caught of stone walls and of stone foundations six to eight feet in height built throughout and many yards in width and depth they formed great stone upon which at one time there had been houses but the houses and the people were lack the n tones also they of p s to go � i ones left over icy wc saw surface pitiful little straw huts the proportions being similar to a perched on the broad foundation of the of for the are and to judge from conditions at the one thing that their destruction is the of fresh blood a pure is a they seem to be all half and strange of of different races nineteen able are all the at can muster for the of on and in their veins runs the blood of english american german french spanish chinese and more races than there are persons but it is of races at best life and and itself away in this warm � a truly paradise � where are never extremes of temperature and where the air is like kept ever pure by the laden trade ma and flourish as as the vegetation everywhere from the few grass huts arises the cough or exhausted groan of wasted lungs other horrible diseases prosper as well but the most deadly of all are those that attack the lungs there is a form of consumption called galloping which is especially dreaded in two months time it the strongest man to a skeleton under a grave cloth in valley after valley the last has passed and the fertile soil has to in s day the valley of by him was peopled by a strong and warlike tribe a generation later it contained but two hundred persons today it is an howling tropical wilderness we climbed higher and higher in the valley our i the ok the picking their steps on the trail which led in and out through the abandoned s and the 