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and if so, did it belong to a captive from some distant 

 and perhaps more barbarous tribe,' 01^ ; x< J #u. agea: * 

 woman slain to prevent the death of Her relatives^ by 

 starvation ? Unhappily, instances , parallel > to; jBo}b "-, 

 of these are on record among the American tribes. 

 We read in Champlain's narratives, of the bodies of 

 slain enemies cut up and carried off for triumphal 

 feasts, and even in more modern times there have 

 been instances of parties of roving Indians being 

 driven by the pangs of hunger to devour each other. 

 If such things occurred in Hochelaga, they must have 

 been rare, for this one bone alone raises the question. 

 Even it may admit of a different explanation. It may 

 have belonged to a victim of the final capture of the 

 town ; it may have been accidentally disinterred from 

 some old grave in digging the fire-hole of a new 

 lodge; it may be connected with the fact that the 

 Hochelagans had the custom, like our own heathen 

 ancestors, of using the skulls of their enemies for 

 vessels. Two examples have been found of human 

 parietal bones trimmed round the edges, evidently for 

 the purpose of being used as cups or bowls. One of 

 them has a hole pierced, probably for a means of sus- 

 pension, and may have been carried by some warrior 

 at once as a trophy of victory and as a drinking-cup. 

 The old races of the two hemispheres may claim 

 kinship in their cruelties and barbarisms, as well as in 

 higher traits. I believe, however, that no certain 

 instance is yet on record either of cannibalism or of 

 the use of human bones as implements or vessels 



