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LARGE CROPS. 
Anthropological Society of London, clad in kilts or grass 
cloth, I should like to take my place alongside the Man- 
yerna, on the principle of preferring the company of ray 
betters. The philosophers would look wofully scraggy ; 
but though the inferior race, as we compassionatelj' call 
them, have finely formed heads, and often handsome fea- 
tures, they are undoubtedly cannibals. It was more diffi- 
cult to ascertain this than may be imagined. Some think 
they can detect the gnawings of the canine teeth of our 
cannibal ancestry of fossil bones. Though the canine teeth 
of dogs are pretty much like human, for many months all 
the evidence I could collect amounted to what would lead 
a Scotch jury to give a verdict of “ not proven.” This 
arose partly from the fellows being fond of a joke, and they 
liked to horrify any one who seemed credulous. They led 
one of my people, who believed all they said, to see the 
skull of a recent human victim, and he invited me in 
triumph. I found it to be the skull of a gorilla, here called 
goko, and for the first time became aware of the existence 
of the animal there. 
The country abounds in food of all kinds, and a rich soil 
raises everything planted in great luxuriance. A friend of 
mine tried rice, and in between three and four months the 
crop increased one hundred and twenty fold. Three mea- 
sures of seed yielded three hundred and sixty measures. 
Maize is so abundant that I have seen forty-five loads, each 
about sixty pounds weight, given for a single goat. The 
maize dura, or holcus sorghum, hennisturn, cassava, sweet 
potato, and yams furnish in no stinted measure farinaceous 
ingredients for diet ; the palm oil, groundnuts, aud a forest 
tree afford fatty material food ; bananas and plantains in 
great profusion, and the sugar-cane, the saccharine ; the 
palm toddy, beer of bananas, tobacco, and range (canabis 
salina), the luxuries of life; and the villages swarm with 
goats, sheep, hogs, pigs, and fowl, while elephants, buffa- 
loes, zebras, and gokos, or gorillas, yield to expert hunters 
plenty of the nitrogenous ingredients of human food. I* 
