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it a great thing and the 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 represented 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, 

 4 c ingeniously sheathed in snake skins." "They tattoo them- 

 selves more than any other tribes I have met north of the 

 equator." And all the world knows what M. Du Chaillu says 

 of their cannibalism "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 

 accused of any want of courage in embodying the statements of 

 his author, and it is to be regretted that, with so good an ex- 

 cuse, he has not furnished us with a fitting companion to the 

 sketch of the brothers De Bry. 



