64 ANIMAL FOOD RESOURCES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



CHAPTER III. 

 Flesh Food from Mammals. 



Flesh of MonTfeys Eaten in Africa, the West Indies, South 

 America, Ceylon, and Borneo — The Lemurs in Madagascar 

 — Bats Eaten in the East and in Australia — Insectivora-^ 

 The Hedgehog — Carnivorous Plantigrades — Bears — Skunk — 

 Badger — Sea Otter— Civet Cat— Dogs' Flesh Eaten by North 

 American Indians, Chinese, Africans, and other People — 

 Foxes and Wolves Eaten — Lion's Flesh — Jaguar — HyKna — 

 Lynx — Carnivorous Marsupials — Opossums — Bandicoots — 

 Kangaroos— Wombats — Phalangers — Marmots — Squirrels — 

 Eats — -Rat Pie — Dormouse — Hares and Rabbits — Prodigious 

 Increase of Rabbits in Australasia — Flesh of the Beaver — 

 Porcupines — Agouti — Sloth — Anteater — Armadilloes. 



I NOW proceed to notice some of the mammals whose 

 flesh occasionally serves as the food of man. 



Monkeys. — The flesh of monkeys is more extensively 

 eaten as food than is generally supposed. African epi- 

 cures esteem as one of their greatest delicacies, a tender 

 young monkey, highly seasoned and spiced, baked in a 

 jar or pan set in the earth, with a fire made over it, 

 gipsy fashion. Governor Connor, in one of his reports 

 to the Colonial Ofiice, mentions that they are eaten on 

 the Gold Coast. 



Young gorillas, it is said, are eaten when they can be 

 got, and their flesh, with that of the chimpanzee and 

 other monkeys, forms a prominent place in the African 

 bill of fare.* 



Dr. Livingstone, in his last Journal, says, " The flesh " 

 (of the Soko, a species of Gorilla) "is yellow, and the 

 eagerness with which the Manynema devour it, leaves 

 the impression that eating sokos was the first stage by 



* CasseU's " Natural History," vol. i., p. 9, 



