RoTH] WAR AND WARFARE 591 
adds to the singularity of the question is that it was decided in the 
affirmative. Montenegro, supporting his opinions from the doctrines 
of Lesio and Diana, seriously asserts in his Itinerario de Parochos 
de Indios (lib. 4, trat. 5, sec. 9, num. 8) that in case of necessity they 
may eat human flesh without any species of sin, because it is not in 
itself evil (FD, 61). Though the Carib received the greatest blame 
for their anthropophagous propensities, other main tribal stocks of 
Guianese Indians, e. g., Arawak and Betoya, must equally be con- 
victed of the habit. 
769. Dealing first with the island Carib, there are records pre- 
served in Chanca’s account of Columbus’s second voyage in which he 
himself took part. “ These captive women [at Guadeloupe] told us,” 
says he, “that the Carib men use them with such cruelty as would 
scarcely be believed, and that they eat the children which they bear 
to them, only bringing up those which they have by their native 
wives. Such of their male enemies as they can take away alive they 
bring hete to their homes to make a feast of them, and those who 
are killed in battle they eat up after the fighting is over. They claim 
that the flesh of man is so good to eat that nothing like it can be com- 
pared to it in the world” (DAC, 440). From the same authority 
it is learned that when the Carib take any boys as prisoners of war 
they remove their organs, fatten the boys until they grow to man- 
hood, and then, when they wish to make a great feast, they kill and 
eat them, for they say the flesh of boys and women is not good to 
eat. Three boys thus mutilated came fleeing to us when we visited 
the houses (DAC, 442). 
770. In Cayenne [with the Noragues, Karannes, etc., i. e., Carib 
stock] the ordinary punishment of those who were made prisoners 
of war was to tie them to a forked stick (fowrche) or to a tree, and 
after having spat upon them all sorts of blasphemies they discharged 
a volley of arrows in different parts of their bodies, and might let 
them die like that. Those who were more impatient of satisfying 
their vengeance, cut the flesh off, bit by bit, and buccaned it. The 
head of the unfortunate person was put high up in the karbet as a 
war trophy and to serve as a monument of their courage to posterity. 
There were those who employed the thigh and arm bones for making 
flutes (PBA, 171). The treatment of prisoners by the Carib of 
Cayenne was practically identical with that of their fellow people in 
the islands (RO, chapter xx1). Other tribes of the same stock, e. g., 
Oyampi (Cou, um, 436), and Ocoqua, were certainly flesh eaters. 
Fathers Grillet and Bechamel have stated that the Acoqua are quite 
another sort of people than the French at Cayenne imagine them to 
be, who account them fierce, cruel, treacherous, and perfidious to 
those they entertain. ... For if one may judge of that nation, by 
