[TheForge] pc amends ;)
Kevin Donahoe
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Thu Nov 13 07:14:00 2003
Thought this might make up for Andy's lack of cultural deoderant!
11) Descendants of cannibals apologize for eating missionary
Scotsman [UK]
"Villagers in a remote Fijian village staged long and elaborate
ceremonies of apology today to the relatives of a British missionary
their ancestors killed and ate 136 years ago. The Reverend Thomas
Baker was killed in 1867 at Nabutautau, a remote community high in
the hills of the South Pacific island of Viti Levu. Residents say
their community has been cursed since the missionary and eight Fijian
followers were consumed. Today they offered cows, specially woven
mats and 30 rare carved sperm whale teeth known as tabua to 10
Australian descendants of Rev Baker, an intrepid Wesleyan
missionary." (11/13/03)
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2171129