The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-01-15
CannibaHsm in Feeiee.

Australian papers state that their
latest news from Feejee was to tine
effect that the rebelhous tribes of noun
taineers in Feejee had not yet been sup
pressed by King Cakobau's troops. On
the Ba coast there have been some
sharp fights. In one of these, which
occurred on the 10Th of July, near Ma
Cuta, a mountain town, two white plan
ters, Philip Jack, of the Ba river, and
Gresham, of Raki Raki, were killed by
the rebels, and four other settlers were
wounded. The Feejee Times, in an ac-
count of this fight, says there were sew
eral natives killed and wounded on the
government side, and a great number
also of the Kal Colos (the noun
taineers). The forces had to make their
attack up a steep hill. Aw aiting them,
the Ksl Colos lay safely ensconced until
the troops approached, when a front
and flank FIRE was opened on them by
the mountaineers and then the oppos-
ing forces met in hand-to hand encoun-
ter, in which bayonets, axes, and clubs
did deadly work. The struggle was toe
hot to last long, however, and the Kal
Colos threw away their weapons snt
everything they had and ran for theii
lives. Two or three whites, with
number of natives, followed them NJ
toward Ma Cula, shot several in thei
chase and three in the town, which th'
Kal Colos set fire to before the govern
ment party reached it.
Three natives of the government
force had been shot day or two befor,
and taken TO this town to be cooked aDS
eaten. Their heads were found stucl
upon sticks, sDd their bones placed OF
the side of the path, in sight of ever
passer-by. There were hundreds o
bones in the town which had beer
cooked long before. The notorious
Rokoqera and his uncle, who, il is said
murdered Macintosh and Spiers, have
at last been killed snd eaten. One o.
the Ma Lota tribe (friendlies) cam,
across one of these two, wounded in th,
leg, and took sweet revenge for the Nj
Lotu man who had been driven out o.
his home some years past by this mar
and his tribe. Ma Lotu spat on hii
hand and said You burnt my town
did you ?" and then made a blow at his
head with a battle-axe, and purpOsely
missed his mark. He again spat on his
hands, "You killed my people, did
you?"
He kept on tantalizing his victim foi
some time until he saw more men com
ing up, when, for fear of having the
pleasure taken out of his hands, hs
chopped OF the poor wretch's head
then his arms and legs, and cut his
body into convenient pieces for carrying
away. He took the head to the creek,
washed it, and brought it to the camp
that the rest of them might be satisfied
as to its identity. Rokcqera was alsc
cut up into pieces and brought in. One
of the missionaries would have then
buried, but at night the pieces wer,
dug up and taken, with several Othel
bodies, to a respectable distance from
the whites and cooked, the bukota lal
(cannibal drum being beaten all th'
time, inviting those who might feel in
clined to come to the feast. II Is ver1
evident that the Kai Colos have gof
such lesson that they never dreamt Of
They are already commencing to quar-
rel among themselves; those who hat
nothing TO do with the murders of thi
Burns family are accusing those WIT
did the deed of bringing all this troubli
upon them by numbering the whit.
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