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.