Dined On Roasted Men

The general curiosity of our entire ;own was aroused by the appearance apon our sóreets of a native of India, who was born upon one of the Fiji slands. He wore a very red or cardinal colored suit of clothes, knee pants, and acket trimmed with black velvet collar and cuffs. Over his shoulder he carried a cloak that was tied over the left shonlder and nader the right, made of white and red fiannel. His head was covered with a blouse that feil down his back, and still over this a sombrero. His shoes were tied nnder the instep with a oneïalf inch white braid that wonnd aronnd he leg np to the knees. His general apjearance was very gaudy. This native was con verted when 23 years old, and is now 74 years of age. ïis father lived to be 130 years of age. 3is lif e has been spent in lecturing on ;he condition of his people. He speaks ;weisty languages flnently. When five or six years old he saw an Indian woman ;hrow her child to a crocodile that weighed 1,000 pounds. The animal missed the child, and the raother canght t as it ran back to her begging for its life, when she threw it again. This time the crocodile strnck it with its claws, tore it into two pieces and ate it very qnickly. She then reported her acts to the pagan priest, and he blessed her, saying to her, ' 'Go sin no more. " He also was a cannibal. When he was 7 years old there were twenty-one ministers who were caught traveling and prospecting for places to lócate chnrches, 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 continned 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 missionar y ; that it is a mistaken idea that they slay one another to eat when this man and that is fat enongh to eat; that the beasts of the field never slay one of their kind to prey upon, and that the savaaes have never rotten to be lower tlian wild animáis.