strong>Note on Cannibalism

The Manyema country, which was the scene of the Belgian campaign, lies mid-way between the Arab centre at Zanzibar and the Belgian settlement at the mouth of the Congo.

Livingstone, in his endeavours to find the Great River of which the Arabs brought him word, was the first European to cross Many emaland; and it was under the protection of a party of Arab slave traders that he entered the country in the year 1869. Travelling with the Arabs, and compelled to follow their erratic course, he was enabled, by the delays this involved, to observe more closely than would otherwise have been possible the habits of the people. Though the cannibalistic propensities of the Manyema were well known, and a subject of great terror to his followers, it was some time