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“’The riddle solved’. The old man with the hat on acknowledges to having eaten human flesh, but his companion without the hat said he abhorred that kind of food.” Group portrait of two old men crouching and one man lying down with his back facing. New Hebrideans [Vanuatuans] developed a reputation as cannibals. In 1839 the first two British missionaries to be dispatched from the London Missionary Society, John Williams and James Harris, were killed and apparently eaten on Erromango or ‘Martyrs’ Island’.
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