cannibal tribes of the interior are altogether brutal in every action of life.

On the contrary, I have observed more frequent traits of affection for wife and children among them than are exhibited in the conduct of domestic affairs among the people of the lower, or Ba Congo, country, Avho are not cannibals, nor addicted to the shedding of blood, save in religious matters.”

A note on the “Origin and Distribution of Cannibalism” in the Geographical Journal for July 1893 says, that while some writers have attributed the origin of cannibalism to religious motives, others consider that “ hunger was the original incentive to the practice, which was afterwards persisted in from choice, the superstitious and religious aspects being later developments.