The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1864-06-17
A Day Among Cannlbals.

Under TINS heading, recent Sandwich Island
papers publish narrative of an adventure
by wnaleman at the Marqnesas Islands,
which is not only of thrilling interest in it.
self, but we'll exhibits, in one aspect, the great
advantages which commerce may and does
derive from Christian missinns.-.rom
the presence and influence among savage
tribes of Christian missionaries. Tne value
of this case, as testimony to the happy in
fiuence Of missions. is certainly not diminish
ed by the tact. that the man who 50 noblv
used all his influence. ready to sacrifice
every thing he had. in the effort TO save the
life Of stranger, was missionary not from
England or the United States, but from the
Sandwich Islands, himself fruit of mod
ern missions,-the same man whose letter
to Mr.. Alexander, giving SO full an account
Of the Marquesas mission, was published in
the Herall for May. 1t appears that the
American whaleship Congress, which sailed
from New Bedford in Jane, 1868. for the
North Pacific, arrived before the harbor of
Puamau on HivaOa, Marquesas Islands, jan
uary l3, and commenced trading with the ma
tives. Mr.. Whaon, first officer" went on
shore for purposes of traffic, and passed up
the valley with a chief, when the natives
commenced chasing pigs,and at the same time
shouting, apparently for the purpose of call
ing the people, who came crushing from all
parts of the valley, armed with hatchets and
knives" The narrative states:
MIR. Whalon, fearing that they meant TO
good, proposed to the chief to return to the
boat; upon which the latter stepped up to
him, suddenly seized his hat and placed It
upon his own head. This he thinks Was
weii-known signal among them, for he was
instantly seized by score of natives, thrown
down and stripped naked, his hands and feet
bound with ropes, which TIE chief had in his
hands, bat which he supposed were intended
/ to tie the pigs.
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clothes into small pieces, and clt the buttons
off, making distribution among the crowd.
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prisoner by pinching him severely. bending
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