The Osceola times., 1879-06-07
Long Pig.

DIR. Mosely, of the scientific staff OF
the Chslleneer expedition, says in his
" Notes OF a Naturalist" just published,
concerning the Fiji islanders:
When visitors OF distinction paid
great chief visit, he was expected to
provide human flesh for their entertain,
ment. If there were no prisoners, a
nan whose special Office it was to obtain
such food for the chief went in search OF
and often killed some girl or woman he
met with alone, belonging 10 a village
not far of.
Young woman wss considered to be
the best eating; Europeans were not
thought 20 good to eat as natives, no
doubt because of their very mixed diet
and much greater consumption of ami.
NAL food The bodies were prepared
with csre for cooking, and were usually
baked in the well known oven in the
ground. A specisl vegetable, a species
o solsnum, wss eaten with the baked
flesh, Just as was the case in New Isa>
land. The vegetable was eaten with
human flesh as n suitable condiment, not
as an antidote. There is no reason TO
suppose tdat III effects followed the eats
ing of human flesh any more than from
the consumption of any other kind of
flesh. The sturdy health OF the gray.
haired Thackombau is sufficient evi
dence against each supposition.
The flesh was eaten cold as well as hot,
and the cold-cooked flesh WAS often sent
as a present to distance by one chief to
another A tour-pronged fork OF wood
was used in esting human flesh, and
was held more or less sacred, but it was
also useu for eating other food occasions
ally.
The New Zeslsnders were, however,
prosby the most profusely cannibal
race that has existed. As many ss one
thousand New Zealand prisoners have
been slaughtered at one time after sue
cessiul battle, that their bodies might be
put into the ovens.
In 1888 the captain of an English
merchant ship, named Stewart, made an
agreement with a tribe of Maoris under
a renowned chief, TIE Rsuparahs, to
convey war-party to distant village
on the coast, for the remuneration OF
cargo OF New Zealand fax. The wsrri
ors were landed at night, exterminated
the village and brought of the bodies OF
the slain to the ship, where they cooked
them in the ships coppers; the captain
nevertheless duly received his cargo.
In 1882 or 1888 large party of
Msoris was landed by another English
merchant vessel on the Chatham islands,
small outliers Of New Zesland. The
Islands were inhabited by a weaker race,
Maoriori," fifteen hundred in number
The Maoris simply ate their way through
the islands, killing the Msorioris as
they required them for food and making
the victims dig the ovens In which they
were TO be cooked in, and collect wood
for the purpose. Their object in going
to the island was to feed upon the in
habitants, Maori VINO hsd visited the
islands, when engaged as a seaman on a
European vessel, having reported the
islanders as plump and we'll fed.
Willis. the New Zsslanders considered
the palms OF the hsnds and the breast IS
the best eating, the tijisns especially
preferred the flesh of the arm below the
elbow, and that of the thigh. Not
more than five and twenty years ago,
white residents are said to have Joined
the natives in their cannibal feasts at
Ovalau, Fiji.