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A Specimen Day 
In some villages the head men of the same tribe 
are interred near one another; the commonalty are 
put singly and decently under ground, and only the 
slave (Maka) is thrown as usual into the bush. 
Mr. Tippet, who had lived three years with this 
people, knew only three cases of cannibalism ; and 
the Rev. Mr. Walker agreed with other excellent 
authorities, that it is a rare incident even in the 
wildest parts—perhaps opportunity only is wanted. 
As will appear from the Fa/z’s bill of fare, anthro¬ 
pophagy can hardly be caused by necessity, and 
the way in which it is conducted shows that it is a 
quasi-religious rite practised upon foes slain in 
battle, evidently an equivalent of human sacrifice. 
If the whole body cannot be carried off, a limb or 
two is removed for the purpose of a roast. The 
corpse is carried to a hut built expressly on the 
outskirts of the settlement; it is eaten secretly by 
the warriors, women and children not being allowed 
to be present, or even to look upon man’s flesh ; 
and the cooking pots used for the banquet must all 
be broken. A joint of “ black brother ” is never 
seen in the villages : “ smoked human flesh ” does 
not hang from the rafters, and the leather knife- 
sheaths are of wild cow; tanned man’s skin sug¬ 
gests only the tanherie de Meudon , an advanced 
“institution.” Yet Dr. Schweinfurth’s valuable 
travels on the Western Nile prove that public 
anthropophagy can co-exist with a considerable 
