THE WORLD'S WONDERS. GOT 



The profound grief felt at the loss of his comrade nerved 

 Fredericks to greater effort, by suppressing hunger and cold, 

 u.ider his acute sufferings of heart. The little store of provis- 

 ions, from which only one mouth was now to be fed, was drawn 

 fiorn more generously, and supplied strength and renewed hope, 

 so that after three more days of wandering over the frozen plains, 

 Fredericks ^t length found the camp again. His return without 

 fr.od plunged the party into despair, for the star of hope appeared 

 ix, w to set forever. 



RESORT TO CANNIBALISM. 



No one is able to decide what desperate resources should be 

 availed of in dire extremity. There are recorded in the pages 

 of history su.'h extraordinary experiences in efforts 1o stay the 

 ravages of starvation that, though we may recoil with disgust at 

 such loathsopie practices, we are none the better prepared to 

 declare that inder similar circumstances we should have been 

 more circumt pect or humane. The eating of snakes, bugs, 

 w< rms, and icptiles of every species has frequently occurred, 

 all shocking enough to our well-fed senses, but thoi-e must be 

 forgotten in the recollection of well-authenticated cases which 

 we have of cannibalism. 



An Englis'i officer, during a successful campaign in the East*, 

 many years ;igo, expressed a wish for a well-cooked boar's head. 

 On the folio .ving day his table was graced with what was repre- 

 sented to him as a native dish of the food that he desired, prepared 

 with especial care by one of the most noted cooks of India. The 

 officer ate with unusual relish, not neglecting to bestow mo>t 

 extravagant praise on the manner of cooking, and begged that 

 the recipe for preparing boar's head might be given him. The 

 reader m? y imagine his horror when the Englishman afterward 

 received incontestable proof that he had dined off a slave's head, 

 who had been killed for the purpose, instead of a boar, no such 

 animal 'jeing known in that country. 



It is, therefore, the loathsome thought, rather than any disgust 

 in ta^te, which makes the very heart sick in contemplating a 

 repast on human flesh. Who can say that this disgust is -not}, 



