Suva - A remote Fiji mountain village which killed and ate an English missionary 136 years ago will next month offer a traditional apology to the man's descendants, local media reported on Tuesday.

Reverend Thomas Baker of the London Missionary Society was killed by the people of Navatusila on July 21, 1867, after he took a comb out of a chief's hair. It was and still is forbidden to touch the head of a chief. He was subsequently cooked and eaten and is the only known white victim of the islands once known as the "Cannibal Isles".

One who took part in the feast was quoted in contemporary accounts as saying "we ate everything but his boots". One of his boots is in the Fijian Museum.

Pina News, published by the Pacific Islands News Association, said the chief or Tui Navatusila of the Navosa district in the central mountainous Viti Levu, Ratu Filimoni Wawabalavu, had invited Bakers descendants.

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Saw this on the news today. The tribe beleive they have been cursed ever since they ate a holy man.
I like it how they've invited the relatives to the island...I wonder if they've been asked to join them for dinner <LOL> He! He! Yes I know you all saw that comming.

Who got the Parson's Nose?

They are lucky it wasn’t an American Missionary, because I’m sure his descendents would be at their lawyers right now, being that they have apologised that means admitting guilt, a sure way of getting sued, heeheee (no offence to Americans, I’m sure the trend of suing anybody will soon kick off in England).