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Also they had a horror of the cannibalism which is so common in the dark regions of Africa, and for this reason, more than any other, loathed the Pongo folk who were supposed to be eaters of men. On the evening of the second day of our march, during which we had passed through a beautiful and fertile upland country, very well watered, and except in the valleys, free from bush, we arrived at Beza.
Leave Kanowit Scenery War Canoes Arrive at Kapit Wild Tribes Kayan Burials Head Feast Lat His Family Tattooing The Sumpitan Kayan and Dyak War Dances The Kok-Goo The Bock Expedition to Central Borneo Cannibalism Return to Kuching.
No other evidence of cannibalism of a positive character was ever after obtained, so that the belief in it rests exclusively upon Chanca's narrative of what the Spaniards saw and learned during the few days of their stay among the islands.
The reason they gave for not eating flesh which is freely eaten by other tribes, is that the leopard devours men; this shows the opposite of an inclination to cannibalism. All the rocks we had seen showed that the plateau consists of grey sandstone, capped by a ferruginous sandy conglomerate.
Their drunkenness, their turbulence, their contempt of all orders, their cruelty to their captives, and their cannibalism, disgusted and shocked Montcalm and his officers; but they were powerless to restrain them, for without them as scouts, guides, and eyes in the forests, the French could have done nothing, and, at the slightest remonstrance, the Indians were ready to take offence, and to march away to their distant homes.
This was doubtless the case in some of the groups of islands where cannibalism was perhaps not very much practised, but in other groups especially among those known by the name of the Feejees the slain were more frequently devoured by men and women than by hogs or dogs.
After 25 years' absence, God had brought me back again, amidst all the sundry and manifold changes of the world, face to face with those tribes amongst whom I had witnessed only bloodshed, cannibalism, and heathen devilry in its grossest form. Now they were sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in their right mind.
This may be commended to the attention of those who still affect to believe that the Cannibalism of my brother's book is overdrawn. That half-civilized Tanna man, smacking his lips at the thought of what might have been his but for the Gospel, outweighs all cavils, and is tenfold stronger than arguments.
Many human things were foreign to the clergyman: he was uneasy about being in the Arequipa's smoke-room at all, for instance, and especially uneasy about sitting there with the drummer. "But human sacrifice!" he protested. "You spoke of human sacrifice." "And cannibalism. La chèvre sans cornes the goat without horns that means an unblemished child less than three years old. It's frequently done.
He found them inhabited by a brave, high-spirited, and quick- witted set of natives, with as large a proportion of the fine qualities sometimes found in a wild race as ever savages possessed, but their tribes continually at war, and the custom of cannibalism prevailing: he had been on friendly terms with them, and presented them with pigs, fowls, and potatoes no small boon in a land where there was no quadruped bigger than a rat, and very few esculent vegetables.
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