KNIGHT AND CANNIBALS.
Bib Habry Johnston told a startling 'ftiriiry "it the annual dinner of the Savage Club lately at the Hotel Cecil, over which Sit W» P. Treloar pre-. Bided.
•'I remember," said the Special Commissioner for Uganda, " my first African banquet—a banquet given by real savage 3in a very wild district of West Africa. I was a timid guest, for I had been hauled out of my canoe to attend, but it was a great feast, prepared in hqnour of some of the ancestors of the tribe—in fact, I was told that the feast to some extent consisted of the ancestors themselves.
" A red paste of a rather agreeable flavour was served in the course of the feast. I asked its composition, and was told, laconically, 'man' 1"
He learned that this paste was composed of a relative who had been smoked over a fire of weeda, and after being, out tip bad been mixed with palm oil and red pepper.
At his last African banquet about a year ago, ifc was again an assembly of black people, but the menu was in French, and the feasfc was cooked by French methods.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 120, 23 May 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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