. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. (1.) A FIJIAN FEAST. (See page 942.). (2.) THE FATE OF THE BOASTER. (See page 952.)(943) FIJIAK LOVE FOR LOKG PIG. 945 do so. He was not a particularly creditableconvert. Some time after he had an-nounced himself to be a Christian, he wentin his war canoe to one of the districts underhis sway. He was received with the hor
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. (1.) A FIJIAN FEAST. (See page 942.). (2.) THE FATE OF THE BOASTER. (See page 952.)(943) FIJIAK LOVE FOR LOKG PIG. 945 do so. He was not a particularly creditableconvert. Some time after he had an-nounced himself to be a Christian, he wentin his war canoe to one of the districts underhis sway. He was received with the horri-bly barbarous ceremonial by which a verygreat chief is honored, conch-shell trum-pets blowing before him, and the peopleshouting their songs of welcome. Thus ac-companied, he walked through a double rowof living victims — men, women, and chil-dren of all ages — suspended by their feet,and placed there to give the king his hopeful convert was pleased to acceptthe offering, touching with his club as hepassed along those victims which seemedmost to his taste. The natives are clever enough at conceal-ing the existence of cannibalism when theyfind that it shocks the white men. An Euro-pean cotton-grower, who had tried unsuc-cessfully to introduce the culture of cottoninto Fiji, found, after a
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