CHAPTER XXVIII.

Go to Temaraia--Miraculous Healings--Child Assailed by an Evil

Spirit--Strange Occurrence--Gift of Sea Biscuits--Perform a Surgical

Operation--Hammering out Teeth--The Writer as a Surgeon and

Dentist--Roughs Disturbs Meeting--They are Stricken with Death--Fatal

Sickness among the People--Lower Classes of Natives at a Feast--Their

Reverence for Religious Services and Preachers--Two Parties of Natives

in Battle Array--Fighting Averted by the Writer Addressing the

Contending Factions in Favor of Peace--Wars among the Natives--Some

of their Practices--Gathering and Keeping Human Heads--Causes of

Cannibalism--Conversation with one who had been a Cannibal--Flavor of

Native and White Men's Flesh Compared--The Tastiest Part of the Human

Body.

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