battahs

Updated: June 19, 2025

After visiting the island of Celebes she repaired to Sumatra, which is inhabited by a race of men even more sanguinary than the Dyaks, namely, the Battahs, who slake their thirst in human blood, and make of anthropophagism a "fine art!"

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century