"During the 19th century the hungriest cannibal, Udre Udre reportedly ate between 872 and 999 people. The Fijian chief had kept a stone to record each body eaten and, these were placed along his tomb in Rakiraki, northern Viti Levu." That is the entry for the Guinness World Records. Udre Udre was a tribal chief in Ra, a province of the main island of Fiji called Viti Levu. In some quarters, Fiji was known as the “Cannibal Isles" due, in no small measure, to the likes of Udre Udre whose relish for human flesh cooked in an earthen oven called a "lovo" bestowed dubious immortality on him. Udre Udre's story began in the Nakauvadra mountain range, in a village then known as Draqara. From there he migrated with his people to the hills of Dakudaku where he established a village called Korolevu. The stones used for the walls on three sides of the cannibal’s fort are said to have been carried from a river about three kilometers down. And it is to Korolevu that I headed to learn more about this infamous person.

свернуть