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sign of a generous soul to despise life), or for love of their 

 rulers, offer themselves up for food." 



" There are indeed many cannibals, as in the Eastern 

 Indies and in Brazil and elsewhere, but none such as 

 these, since the others only eat their enemies, but these 

 their own blood relations." 



The careful illustrators of Pigafetta have done their 

 best to enable the reader to realize this account of the 

 " Anziques," and the unexampled butcher's shop repre- 

 sented in Fig. 12, is a facsimile of part of their Plate XII. 



M. Du Chaillu's account of the Fans accords most 

 singularly with what Lopez here narrates of the Anziques. 

 He speaks of their small crossbows and little arrows, of 

 their axes and knives, " ingeniously sheathed in snake 

 skins." " They tattoo themselves more than any other 

 tribes I have met north of the equator." And all the 

 world knows what M. Du Chaillu says of their cannibal- 

 ism — " Presently we passed a woman who solved all 

 doubt. She bore with her a piece of the thigh of a human 

 body, just as we should go to market and carry thence a 

 roast or steak." M. Du Chaillu's artist cannot generally 

 be aceused of any want of courage in embodying the state- 

 ments of his author, and it is to be regretted that, with 

 so good an excuse, he has not furnished us with a fitting 

 companion to the sketch of the brothers De Bry. 



