African Cannibalism in the Sixteenth Century. 
WMWESLEY. 
Fig. 12.—Butcher’s Shop of the Anziques, Anno 1598. 
In turning over Pigafetta’s 
version of the narrative of 
Lopez, which I have quoted 
above, I came upon so cu- 
rious and unexpected an an- 
ticipation, by some two cen- 
turies and a half, of one of 
the most startling parts of M. 
Du Chaillu’s narrative, that I 
cannot refrain from drawing 
attention to it in a note, al- 
though I must confess that 
the subject is not strictly re- 
levant to the matter in hand. 
In the fifth chapter of the 
first book of the ‘‘ Descriptio,” 
“Concerning the northern 
part of the Kingdom of Congo 
and its boundaries,” is men- 
tioned a people whose king is 
ealled ‘Maniloango,’ and who 
live under the equator, and as 
far westward as Cape Lopez. 
This appears to be the coun- 
try now inhabited by the 
Ogobai and Bakalai accord- 
ing to M. Du Chaillu.—* Be- 
yond these dwell another 
people called ‘ Anziques,’ of 
incredible ferocity, for they 
eat one another, sparing nei- 
ther friends nor relations.” 
These people are armed with small bows bound tightly round with snake skins, 
and strung with a reed or rash. Their arrows, short and slender, but made of 
hard wood, are shot with great rapidity. They have iron axes, the handles of 
which are bound round with snake skins, and swords with scabbards of the same 
material ; for defensive armour they employ elephant hides. They cut their 
skins when young, so as to produce scars. “ Their butchers’ shops are filled with 
