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CANNIBALISM. 



I will no longer object to receive for truths, all 

 the strange accounts which I have read in books, 

 and have hitherto considered, as mere inventions 

 to deter travellers from exploring the uncivilized 

 parts of the world ; or to astound listening children 

 on a winter's night, when howling winds and 

 drifting snow announce, that there is murky 

 mischief going on ; and gipsies encamped close 

 by, to kidnap them, should they be rash enough 

 to venture out, beyond the threshold of their 

 comfortable habitation. 



I have entered into this enquiry, and have 

 determined to place my observations before the eye 

 of the public, in order that man, the noblest 

 animal in the Creation, even when he runs wild in 

 the woods, may be put upon an equal footing 

 with his civilized brother, so far as their daily food 

 in flesh-meat is concerned ; and thus be cleansed 

 from a stain so foul and black as that of real 

 cannibalism. 



When I travel into countries inhabited by 

 savages, I would thus address the assembled 

 natives 



" Ladies and Gentlemen, — I am come to see 

 you, and to admire your beautiful country ; but, 

 not to eat you, nor to be eaten by you. I assure 

 you, that it is not my intention to enter into 



