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offerings of their flesh and blood to these gods, being par 

 taken of by worshippers. In our own days a kindred union 

 of these two uses of captives was found in Fiji, where sub 

 jugated tribes, doomed to predial slavery, served also as 

 reserves of victims for the feasts of their conquerors. 



Where cannibalism is not rampant, or has died out, 

 prisoners of war are, among the slightly civilized, put to use 

 either as domestic slaves or as field-slaves, or very generally 

 as both. Of certain low-grade Africans it is said 



&quot;The Damaras are idle creatures. What is not done by the women 

 is left to the slaves, who are either descendants of impoverished 

 members of their own tribe ... or captured bushmen.&quot; 



And in the more advanced African societies we find allied 

 facts. Describing the Dahomans as &quot; demoralized by slave- 

 hunts,&quot; Burton says that &quot; agriculture is despised because 

 slaves are employed in it.&quot; In Ashanti again, nobles possess 

 &quot; thousands of slaves,&quot; who &quot; are employed in cultivating 

 the plantations of their masters, or in trading for them.&quot; 



Asia, in our own times, furnishes illustrations of various 

 kinds. We are told that the Biluehi do not themselves do 

 the laborious work of cultivation, but impose it upon the 

 Jutts, the ancient inhabitants whom they have subjugated. 

 In Ceylon, up to 1845, there survived a like use of the 

 indigenes. Says Tennent: &quot; Slavery in Ceylon was an 

 attribute of race ; and those condemned to it were doomed to 

 toil from their birth.&quot; 



&quot;In the formation of these prodigious tanks, the labour chiefly 

 employed was that of the aboriginal inhabitants, the Yakkos and 

 Nagas, directed by the science and skill of the conquerors. . . . Like 

 the Israelites under the Egyptians, the aborigines were compelled to 

 make bricks for the stupendous dagobas erected by their masters.&quot; 



The sequence of slavery upon war in ancient times is 

 shrown us in the chronicles of all races. Besides a semi-free 

 class of fellahin, the Egyptians had a slave-class, which, 

 judging by the representations and inscriptions on their 

 monuments, was continually recruited by captives taken in 



