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Lake, are “ Menschenfresser,” as they were rightly 
called by the authors of the “ Mombas Mission 
Map.” These miserables have abandoned to wild 
growth a most prolific soil; too lazy and unenergetic 
to hunt or to fish, they devour all manner of car¬ 
rion, grubs, insects, and even the corpses of their 
deceased friends. The Midgan, or slave-caste of 
the semi-Semitic Somal, are sometimes reduced to 
the same extremity; but they are ever held, like 
the Wendigo, or man-eaters, amongst the North 
American Indians, impure and detestable. On 
the other hand, the Tupf-Guaranfs of the Brazil, a 
country abounding in game, fish, wild fruits, and 
vegetables, ate one another with a surprising 
relish. This subject is too extensive even to be 
outlined here: the reader is referred to the 
translation of Hans . Stade: old travellers at¬ 
tribute the cannibalism of the Brazilian races to 
“ gulosity ” rather than superstition ; moreover, 
these barbarians had certain abominable practices, 
supposed to be known only to the most advanced 
races. 
Anthropophagy without apparent cause was 
not unknown in Southern Africa. Mr. Layland 
found a tribe of “ cave cannibals ” amongst the 
mountains beyond Thaba Bosigo in the Trans- 
Gariep Country. 1 He remarks with some surprise, 
1 “Journal.of the Ethnological Society,” April, 1869. 
