226 The Triumphs of the Gospel in Fiji, 
On another day, in Mbau, loo Namena people were 
taken prisoners in war, strangled, baked, and eaten, while 
eighty of their wives were strangled to honour the dead. 
The murdered women lay around the mission station in 
heaps, for some time. Imagining what it must have been to 
have lived in such a mission home, we can reverence the men 
and women who took the Gospel to Fiji. At another time, 
260 bodies furnished the meat for the cannibal feast to the 
nobles of Mbau. It is said that more bodies were eaten on 
this island, than on any other part of the group. It is 
said also that the ovens were never cool, so frequently were 
the sacrifices slain and cooked. 
Among these cannibal stories, some are exceptionally 
horrible. A chief, whose prowess in war was remarkable, 
had a favourite daughter. An enemy who had been defeated 
again and again by the girl's father, contrived to waylay 
her, and kill her ; then carried her off to his own village, 
where her flesh was cooked, and distributed among his 
people, as a most dainty morsel. Not content with this 
diabolical act of revenge, he sent back her bones, and 
caused them to be strewn before the door of her father's 
hut, as an insult of the most unpardonable kind. 
In one case, Ra Undreundre, on capturing a female 
prisoner from a town which he besieged, had her taken to 
his residence, placed in a large wooden tub, and cut up ~ 
alive, that none of her blood might be lost. Another 
Fijian chief, named Loti, killed, and ate his only wife. 
According to custom, she accompanied him to the field, to 
assist in planting taro. After this task was done, he com- 
manded her to get wood, wherewith to build a fire. This 
she did, as well as collected grass to line the oven, and a 
bamboo to cut up whatever was to be eaten. When all 
these preparations were complete, the monster seized her. 
