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ripped from his body, cut in pieces, broiled, and given to the young 
men under the belief that it would increase their courage; they 
drank his blood, thinking it would make them more wary, and — 
finally his body was divided limb from limb, roasted or thrown 
into the seething pot, and hands and feet, arms and legs, head 
and trunk, were all stewed into a horrid mess, and eaten amidst 
yells, songs and dances.* 
` Much more might be added but enough has been said for our- 
purpose, viz: to show that cannibalism being so common in other 
arts of America, there would be no improbability of its existence 
in Florida. We have entered more into details than we otherwise 
should because the subject of American cannibalism has not re- — 
ceived the attention it deserves. Mr. Francis Parkman is almost 
the only one who has taken the trouble to call attention to the 
documentary evidence which exists bearing upon it, and I am 
largely indebted to his writings and to himself personally for 
references to original statements. 
THE HISTORY OF THE LOBSTER. 
Ar length we have in a paper by Mr. S. I. Smith, assistant in 7 
the Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, a careful history of the 2 
changes undergone by our native lobster, with valuable informa 
tion on the season of breeding, and other facts of practical i 
terest. The lobster, so important as an article of diet, is dying 
out from overfishing, and the time may come when it will have i 
be artificially raised. The information afforded by Mr. Smith is 
a result of the comprehensive views of Professor Baird, U. ' 
Commissioner of fisheries, who, besides his own laborious inquiries 
into the condition and prospects of our fisheries, has called en 
aid many naturalists, who have by their special researches, T 
the aid of the vessels and apparatus afforded by gover” 
* For a justification of this picture of savagery the reader is referred to La Fo 
Hist. de ? Amerique. Paris, 1722, p. 23. Relation of Barthelemy de Vimout, 1642 Po 
Relation of Jean Brebeuf, July 1636, p. 121. Relation of Francois Joseph Le *™ 
June, 1637, p. 118, Relation of Vimout, 1644, p. 41. 
