Central Africa, Japan and Fiji: a story of missionary enterprise, trials and triumphs (1882)
Pitman, Emma Raymond, American Tract Society · New York, American tract society · leaf 226
212 The Triumphs of the Gospel in Fjt, dish. Their personal habits were very dirty; the added dirt of years, appearing even on the bluish-black skins of the Fijians. The furniture of a native hut would consist of nets, pots for cooking food, bows, spears, knives, forks, and other weapons of war.… … of victims killed and eaten. This article is now known by the Europeans as the “ Cannibal Fork.” Beside this, fish- ing rods, bamboos, mosquito nets, and bone knives, could be seen. Usually, the fire-place was in the middle of the “house, for the people invariably cooked their food ; while a raised…
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