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Congo Cannibals Won

 Congo Cannibals Won  Masaba was employed twenty-five years  ago by Congo officials to commandeer rubber  gatherers, men or women. He had authority,  and when men would not go with him to  work, he would shoot them down, cut them  up, put them in a pot, add palm oil, cook  them, and eat them. He ate his hundred!  All the natives knew him. He was also the  executioner for his chief, hacking off men's  heads, and was known as the most cruel  monster in all that Congo country.  In December, 1927, he came to the Deti  Hill station, directed by the Heart of Africa  Mission, and inquired for Ma Risasi (Miss  Mary Rees, whose African name means Miss  Bullets, because she shoots the Gospel so  fast). She treks down among the villages  around Deti, alone, wades the streams,  tackles big black men about their sins,  preaches about hell and Heaven and God's  requirement of righteousness. " Ma Risasi,"  said this merciless black, " tell me the story  you're telling in th