Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . AUCKLAND HARBOR FRONT, NEW ZEALAND. MAORIS COOKING AND WASHING IN NATURALSPRINGS, NEW ZEALAND FIJI The Cannibal Isles—Missionaries—American Claim ONE would never suspect that the happy and hospitablenatives of Fiji were the immediate descendants of arace which until recently was dreaded throughoutthe Pacific, on account of its systematic practice of cannibal-ism and other horrible rites. The most noticeable character-istics of the Fijian of to-day is his merry, hap
Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home . AUCKLAND HARBOR FRONT, NEW ZEALAND. MAORIS COOKING AND WASHING IN NATURALSPRINGS, NEW ZEALAND FIJI The Cannibal Isles—Missionaries—American Claim ONE would never suspect that the happy and hospitablenatives of Fiji were the immediate descendants of arace which until recently was dreaded throughoutthe Pacific, on account of its systematic practice of cannibal-ism and other horrible rites. The most noticeable character-istics of the Fijian of to-day is his merry, happy , until the missionaries commenced their labors in 1832and for some years afterward, the Fijians had the reputation,justly earned, of being the most atrocious, bloodthirsty can-nibals on earth. Every sort of horrible crime—cannibalism,infanticide and human sacrifice—was practiced, partly out ofpure ferocity, partly as a religious rite. In reading the earlyhistory of Fiji, one sickens at the prominence given to theatrocious acts of cannibalism—the fattening, the clubbing andthe roasting of hecatombs of human beings. It was in such a
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