THE CORK-LEGGED MISSIONARY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3904, 24 January 1884, Page 4

THE CORK-LEGGED MISSIONARY.

; Groat results are expected from tin experiment recently tried by tho Missionary Society. Last year they sent as Missionary to the Cannibal Islands a brother who had lost both arms and logs by accident. ■ He was provided with cork limbs, and his voice being in good condition, it was believed ho could get on in his special work with the heathen as well an though lie was a whole man. That wan to allow the cannibals to kill him and cat him, believing that-the , heathen would see tho error of their ways, and swear off on human flesh. A report has beon received which is very encouraging. It seoms that the cannibals killed the good missionary, and cut off bis arms, and legs fora sort of . stew or boyaw, thus falling directly into the trap set for them. It was the most laughablo thing ever witnessed to Bee tho hoatheu chow on these cork limbs. 'J'lioy. bojlocl them all day and all uighly

keeping up a sort Of go-as-you-please walk around, or fresh meat danoe, and giving a concert, and when they stuck a fork into the boiling limbs, and found that" the meat seemed water soaked, they set the table and sounded the loud timbrel for breakfast. The surviving missionary says' he shall never forget the look of pain on 1 a buck cannibal as ho bit into the elbow joint of the late lamented, and struckabrasshmge. He picked it out as an epicure would a ball out of a piece of venison, and laid ?t beside him in an abstracted manner, and began to chew on the cork elbow. Any person who has ever tried to draw a cork out of a beer bottlo with hia teeth can realise the feelings of those cannibals as they tried to draw sustenance from tho remains of the cork man. They were saddened, and it is safo to say they were incensed against the Missionary- Society. Whether they will conclude "that all good whites have become tough, and quit trying to masticate them, is not known, though that is the object sought to be obtained by the Society.