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human flesh instead of that of oxen or sheep. For they eat the enemies whom they 
take in battle. They fatten, slay and devour their slaves also, unless they think 
they shall get a good price for them ; and, moreover, sometimes for weariness 
of life or desire of glory (for they think it a great thing and the sign of a gener- 
ous soul to despise life), or for love of their rulers, offer themselves up for food.” 
“ There are indeed many cannibals, asin the Eastern Indies and in Brazil and 
elsewhere, but none such as these, since the others only eat their enemies, but 
these their own blood relations.” 
The careful illustrators of Pigafetta have done their best to enable the reader 
to realize this account of the ‘ Anziques,’ and the unexampled butcher’s shop 
represented in fig. 12, is a facsimile of part of their Plate XII. 
M. Du Chaillu’s account of the Fans accords most singularly with what Lopez 
here narrates of the Anziques. He speaks of their small crossbows and little 
arrows, of their axes and knives, “ingeniously sheathed in snake skins.” “They 
tattoo themselves more than any other tribes I have met north of the equator.” 
And all the world knows what M. Du Chaillu says of their cannibalism—* Pre- 
sently we passed a woman who solved all doubt. She bore with her a piece of 
the thigh of a human body, just as we should go to market and carry thence a 
roast or stéak.”” M. Du Chaillu’s artist cannot generally beaccused of any want 
of courage in embodying the statements of his author, and it is to be regretted 
that, with so good an excuse, he has not furnished us with a fitting companion 
to the sketch of the brothers De Bry. 
