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"be the icthyopliagi described by Herodotug; 

 ** but there are several circumstances in Lis des- 

 ** caption which would seem to contradict such a 

 •* supposition. The same author also, in allud- 

 *' ing to the Batta anthropophagi, or cannibals 

 of Sumatra, says, (h) * This inhuman custom 

 u not however without a precedent in history, 

 •'for Herodotus positively asserts that the Paday, 

 '* or Fadaoi, about five hundred years before our 

 " sera, were not only addicted to the eating of 

 raw flesh, but accustomed to kill and eat their 

 *' relations when they grew old. ^'ow it is curious 

 ** that Batta or Battay, for the name is written 

 '* both ways, seems to be the very word which, 

 " in Greek, is rendered Padaoi, the letter p being 

 •* aJmost always pronounced b ajiiong several of 

 " the Indo-Chinese nations, as in the word Pali 

 " which is almost always pronounced Bali. The 

 " following is the account which Herodotus gives 

 " us ofthePaday or Padaoi,* amiher Indian mti- 

 *' on, who ilmiHto the tmlwQrd of these, (the Indian 

 ** kthjffiphagi) are of nmmdic habits, md eat 

 ** Ji€sft ; Th€if are caiied Padai/, and are said to 

 ** practice such customs an the folltming ; whoever 

 ** of the commtmity, be it man or woman, happens to 

 **faU sick, his inost famiUar Jt ie^ids, if it is a man, 

 " kili him, satjing that % his pining in swhms, 

 ** hisfitsh win spoiled for thc^n, and, though he 

 ** dmi^ that he is sickt, thttf do mi attend to him, hut 

 " put him to death and feast on him. When a wo* 

 man fal/s sick, she is treated in like manner % 

 " her most intimate femak associates. The^ also 

 sacrifice and feast on him who arritxs at old age 



" (\) On Oie lan^age wnA lUeimture of the luda Chmete ottktu As. 

 Kei. Vol. 10. p*gc* aaa, 203,'* 



