with the Fan Cannibals. 
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the kind with extreme severity. During 1862 
the slaves of Creek-town attempted it, and were 
killed. At Duke-town an I bo woman also cut up 
a man, sun-dried the flesh, and sold it for monkey’s 
meat—she took sanctuary at the mission house. 
Yet it is in full vigour amongst their I bo neigh¬ 
bours to the north-west, and the Duallas of the 
Camarones River also number it amongst their 
“ country customs.” The Mpongwe, as has been 
said, will not eat a chimpanzee; the Fa n devour 
their dead enemies. 
The Fa n character has its ferocious side, or it 
would not be African : prisoners are tortured with 
all the horrible barbarity of that human wild beast 
which is happily being extirpated, the North 
American Indian; and children may be seen 
greedily licking the blood from the ground. It is 
a curious ethnological study, this peculiar develop¬ 
ment of destructiveness in the African brain. 
Cruelty seems to be with him a necessary of life, 
and all his highest enjoyments are connected with 
causing pain and inflicting death. His religious 
rites—a strong contrast to those of the modern 
Hindoo—are ever causelessly bloody. Take as an 
instance, the Efik race, or people of Old Calabar, 
some 6,000 wretched remnants of a once-powerful 
tribe. For 200 years they have had intercourse 
with Europeans, who, though slavers, would cer¬ 
tainly neither enjoy nor encourage these profitless 
