1 68  Mr.  miller’s  Account  of 
and  dancing  all  night  before  the  body  was  interred  r they 
alfo  fired  a great  many  guns.  At  tliefe  funerals  they  kill 
a great  many  buffaloes ; every  Radja,  for  a confiderable 
diftance,  brings  a buffalo  and  kills  it  at  the  grave  of  the 
deceafed,  fometimes  even  a year  after  his  interment;  we 
affifted  at  the  ceremony  of  killing  the  1 06th  buffalo  at  a 
radja’s  grave. 
The  Battas  have  abundance  of  black  cattle,  buffaloes, 
and  horfes,  all  which  they  eat.  They  alfo  have  great 
quantities  of  fmall  black  dogs,  with  ereeft  pointed  ears, 
which  they  fatten  and  eat.  Rats  and  all  forts  of  wild 
animals,  whether  killed  by  them  or  found  dead,  they  eat 
indifferently.  Man’s  flefh  may  rather  be  faid  to  be  eaten 
in  terror eni,  than  to  be  their  common  food;  yet  they 
prefer  it  to  all  others,  and  fpeak  with  peculiar  raptures  of 
the  foies  of  the  feet  and  palms  of  the  hands.  They  ex- 
preffed  much  furprize  on  being  informed  that  white 
people  did  not  kill,  much  lefs  eat,  their  prifoners. 
Thefe  people,  though  cannibals,  received  me  with 
great  hofpitality  and  civility ; and  though  it  was  thought 
very  dangerous  for  any  European  to  venture  among 
them,  as  they  are  a warlike  people,  and  extremely  jea- 
lous of  ftrangers ; yet  I took  only  fix  Malays  as  a guard, 
but  was  efcorted  from  place  to  place  by  thirty,  forty,  and 
fometimes 
