The Good Oil On
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A Bad Egg
A recent American visitor to Fiji, Mrs. Marjorie W. Overacker, who looked into the history of one of her ancestors, Captain John Binner, found that he had been eaten by cannibals.
Captain Binner was a trader and missionary in Fiji about 100 years ago.
Mrs. Overacker discovered that Captain Binner sold some barrels of oil to the Fijians who found that two thirds of the so-called oil was water.
As a result, he finished up in the cook pot.
"I can see that the Fijians had reason for making Binner into 'long pig'," Mrs. Overacker said. "I hope, however, that he did some good, too."