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The best use of a Christian pest I've ever heard of. Nowadays the islanders are Methodists.

A REMOTE Fiji mountain village which killed and ate an English missionary 136 years ago will next month offer a traditional apology to the man's descendants, local media reported.

Reverend Thomas Baker of the London Missionary Society was killed by the people of Navatusila on July 21, 1867, after he took a comb out of a chief's hair. It was and still is forbidden to touch the head of a chief.

He was subsequently cooked and eaten and is the only known white victim of islands once known as the "Cannibal Isles".

One who took part in the feast was quoted in contemporary accounts as saying "we ate everything but his boots". One of his boots is in the Fijian Museum here.

Village to apologise for eating man

Richard Evans Lee
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