Life at Banza Nokki. 
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character and disposition of the native African, 
it may fairly be doubted whether, throughout the 
whole of this great continent, a negro cannibal has 
any existence.” The year 1816 was the Augustan 
age of outrageous negrophilism and equally ex¬ 
treme anti-Napoleonism. “If a French general” 
(Introduction, p. i), “ brutally seized the person 
and papers of a British naval officer, on his return 
from a voyage of discovery,” who, I would ask, 
plundered and destroyed the fine botanical collec¬ 
tion made at risk of health and life, during fifteen 
months of hard labour, by the learned Palisot de 
Beauvois, author of the “ Flore d’Oware ?” The 
“ Reviewer” of Douville (p. 177) as sensibly de¬ 
clares that cannibalism “ has hitherto continually 
retired before the investigation of sober-minded, 
enlightened men,” when, after a century or two of 
intercourse with white traders, it still flourishes on 
the Bonny and New Calabar Rivers. 
We are glad to be rid of the Jagas, a subject 
which has a small literature of its own ; the savage 
race appeared everywhere like a “ deus ex ma- 
china,” and it became to Intertropical Africa what 
the “ Lost Tribes” were and even now are in 
some cases, to Asia and not rarely to Europe. Even 
the sensible Mr. Wilson (“ West Africa,” p. 238) 
has “ no doubt of the Jagas being the same people 
with the more modernly discovered Pangwes” 
(Fa/zs) ; and this is duly copied by M. du Chaillu 
