venaka

Updated: May 29, 2025

On my return to the village I had a most interesting interview with these ex-cannibals, one old and two middle-aged men, thanks to Masirewa, my interpreter. He first asked them how they liked human flesh, and they all shouted "Venaka, venaka!"

H. Wilfrid Walker - Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines