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  • Vuna, one of the Feejees, have given a circumstantial account of a cannibal feast, for the preparation of which they were eye-witnesses.

    The Island Home Richard Archer

  • Milesian brogue, related his adventures during a forty years 'residence at Ovolan, one of the Feejees.

    The Island Home Richard Archer

  • But you didn't come home for some years; you went tradin 'down along the Feejees and around that way.

    Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • If this be true, there is no need that we should be sending good men and dear, pious women to convert the Chinese, the Feejees, and the poor Africans so benighted that their very color is black, and the Australians, and New Georgians, to be roasted and eaten by the cannibals there.

    The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870

  • In 1865 Posyet was visited by ten merchant vessels; it exported fifteen thousand poods of _beche de mer_, the little fish formerly the monopoly of the Feejees, and of which John Chinaman is very fond.

    Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life Thomas Wallace Knox 1865

  • For example, a recent author ascribes to the Feejees the belief that there will be a resurrection of the body just as it was at the time of death.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • The Feejees are also very much afraid of Samiulo, ruler of a subterranean world, who sits at the brink of a huge fiery cavern, into which he hurls the souls he dislikes.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • The Feejees tell how one of their warriors, seeing the spectre of a recently deceased enemy of his, threw his war club at it and killed it.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • Feejees, he'll get a taste o 'these black gentry in their native condition.

    The Coral Island 1859

  • This was doubtless the case in some of the groups of islands where cannibalism was perhaps not very much practised, but in other groups -- especially among those known by the name of the Feejees -- the slain were more frequently devoured by men and women than by hogs or dogs.

    The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas 1859

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