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CHAPTER XI. 



FIJIAN CANNIBALISM. THE GEEAT CAULDEON. NATTLUMATUA AND HIS 

 APPETITE FOE HUMAN FLESH. BOKOLA. VEGETABLES EATEN WITH 



CANNIBAL FOOD. THE OMINOUS TAEO. APPEOXIMATE NUMBEE OF 



BODIES EATEN AT NAMOSI. OVENS FOE BAKING DEAD MEN. SUSPEN- 

 SION OF THE BONES. NOT ALL FIJIANS CANNIBALS. EFFOETS OF THE 

 LIBEEAL PAETY TO SUPPEESS ANTHEOPOPHAGISM. AIDED BY EUBO- 

 PEANS. EEAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EATING MAN ONLY PAETLY UNDEB- 

 STOOD. CONCESSIONS TO HUMANITY. ABOLITION OF CANNIBALISM 

 THEOUGHOUT ZUEUDUADUA's DOMINIONS. 



WHEN, in August, 1856, Dr. Macdonald, of H.M.S. He- 

 rald, then under the command of Captain Denham, and 

 the Rev. Samuel Waterhouse, a brother of the gentle- 

 man who accompanied us, paid a visit to Kuruduadua's 

 dominions, cannibalism was still one of the recognized 

 institutions of the state. " A few days ago," says Dr. 

 Macdonald, " a large canoe from Navua went out on its 

 first voyage, when a fleet of the enemy from Serua at- 

 tacked it, and succeeded in killing one man, who fell 

 overboard. The Serua people now dispersed, and the 

 canoe, on returning, landed a detachment with directions 

 to surprise the enemy on coming ashore. They fell in 

 with a party of seven, four of whom were killed, two fled, 

 and one was taken prisoner. The latter was almost im- 

 mediately boiled alive in a large cauldron. Kuruduadua, 

 the perpetrator of this cruelty, addressed him, in short 



