AFKICAJSr CANNIBALISM IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 69 



AFEICAN CANNIBALISM IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 



In turning, over Pigafetta's version of the narrative of Lopez, 



whicli I have quoted 

 above, I came upon so 

 curious and unexpected 

 an anticipation, by some 

 two centuries and a 

 half, of one of the most 

 startling parts of M. Du 

 Chaillu's narrative, that 

 I cannot refrain from 

 drawing attention to it 

 in a note, although I 



must confess that the 

 subject is not strictly- 

 relevant to the matter 

 in hand. 



In the fifth chapter 

 of the first book of the 

 " Descriptio, " Concern- 

 ing the northern part 

 of the Kingdom of Con- 

 go and its boundaries, 

 is mentioned a people 

 whose king is called 

 ' Maniloango,' and who 

 live under the equator, 

 and as far westward as 

 Cape Lopez. This ap- 

 pears to be the country 

 now inhabited by the 

 Ogobai and Bakalai ac- 

 cording to M. Du Chail- 

 lu. — " Beyond these 

 dwell another people 



called ' Anziques,' of incredible ferocity, for they eat one another, 



sparing neither friends nor relations." 



Fio. 12.— Butcher's Shop of the Anziques, Anno 1598. 



