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was puzzling to see why they should be cannibals. New 
Zealanders, we are told, were cannibals because they had 
killed all their gigantic birds, the moa, etc., and they wero 
converted from the man-eating persuasion by the introduc- 
tion of pigs ; but the Mauyema have plenty of pigs and 
other domestic animals, and yet they are cannibals. Into 
the reason for their cannibalism they do not enter. They 
say that human flesh is not equal to that of goats or pigs. 
It is saltish, and makes them dream of the dead. Why 
fine looking men like them should be so low in the moral 
scale can only be attributed to the non-introduction of that 
religion which makes those distinctions among men which 
phrenology and other “ologies” cannot explain. The reli- 
gion of Christ is unquestionably the best for man. I refer 
to it not as the Protestant, the Catholic, the Greek, or any 
other, but to the comprehensive faith which has spread 
more widely over the world than most people imagine, and 
whose votaries, of . whatever name, are better men than any 
outside the pale. We have, no doubt, grievous faults, but 
these are in part owing to want of religion. Christians, 
generally, are better than the heathen, but often don’t show 
it ; and they are immeasurably better than they believe each 
other to be. The Manyema women, especially far down the 
Lualaba, are very pretty and very industrious. The market 
with them is a great institution, and they work hard and 
carry far, in order to have something to sell. Markets are 
established about ten or fifteen miles apart. There those 
who raise cassava, maize, grain and sweet potatoes, ex- 
ehange them for oil, salt, pepper, fish, and other relishes. 
Fowls, also pigs, goats, grass cloth, mats and other articles 
change hands. All dressed in their last candy-colored, 
many-folded kilts, that resell from waist to knee, when two 
or three thousand are together, they fbnn an interesting 
sight. They enforce justice, though chiefly women, and 
they are such eager traders, that they set off in companies, 
by night, and begin to run as soon as they come within the 
hum arising from hundreds of voices. To haggle, and 
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