“ The edible rat was the currency on Easter Island,” said Professor Macmillan Brown in a lecture to the Workers’ Educational Association on a recent night (states the Lyttelton Times). “The rat was a vegetarian and was roasted whole with all its vegetarian parts, and was supposed to be very like a sausage. If an Easter Islander wanted to buy anything, he went to the rat burrows at night, and collected as much money as he needed.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 60
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