since the country was rich and full of foods (both animal and farinaceous), and starvation, or want of animal matter, could not be urged as a defence.

“ And yet,” said Livingstone, “ they are a fine-looking race; I would back a company of Manyema men to be far superior in shape of head, and generally in physical form too, against the whole Anthropological Society. Many of the women are very light-coloured and very pretty.” The practice of cannibalism would seem to be less a matter connected with civilisation than the result of a definite perversion of taste; and it is frequently the case that cannibal races are less cruel and bloodthirsty than many tribes not addicted to the practice. Mr. Herbert Ward, in his Five Years with the Congo Cannibals, says: “It must not be supposed that the