OHAP. VIII.] 
OR, SINBAD THE SAILOR . 
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spend hours in drawing maps with a stick upon the 
sand, of the countries he had visited, and especially of 
the Mediterranean, and the course from Egypt and 
Constantinople to England. Unfortunately, some long 
story was attached to every principal point of the 
voyage. The descriptions most interesting to me were 
those connected with the west bank of the White 
Nile, as he had served for some years with the 
trading party, and had penetrated through the Mak- 
karika, a cannibal tribe, to about two hundred miles 
west of Gondokoro. Both he and many of Ibrahim's 
party had been frequent witnesses to acts of canni¬ 
balism, during their residence among the Makkarikas. 
They described these cannibals as remarkably good 
people, but possessing a peculiar taste for dogs and 
human flesh. They accompanied the trading party in 
their razzias, and invariably ate the bodies of the 
slain. The traders complained that they were bad 
associates, as they insisted upon killing and eating 
the children which the party wished to secure as 
slaves : their custom was to catch a child by its ankles, 
and to dash its head against the ground; thus killed, 
they opened the abdomen, extracted the stomach 
and intestines, and tying the two ankles to the neck, 
they carried the body by slinging it over the shoulder, 
and thus returned to camp, where they divided it by 
