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FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE 



cannibal towns. Their religion is the worship of their 

 ancestors, who are eaten when they die. When asked 

 why they eat human flesh, they reply that they have always 

 done so. They are strict observers of the laws of hospitality 



GOSLING S LITTI-E CANNIBAL FRIEND 



and, as long as he is under their roof, will feed and protect 

 the man whom they will afterwards waylay and attempt to 

 murder. 



" The Germans seem to know little of their country 

 except a short distance on either side of their main route up 

 to Garua. Here every village is deserted on account of the 

 excesses of their native soldiery. 



" The only way of stopping slave raiding seems to be to 

 close the ivory market by international agreement. The white 

 man is allowed to kill only two elephants a year in a sporting 

 way, while the native hunter kills them indiscriminately. 



