body properly, but discovered afterwards that, though the man would not eat the body himself, he had given it to his friends to eat. That same week a young Basongo chief came to the Commandant while at his dinner in his tent, and asked for the loan of his knife, which, without thinking, the Commandant lent him. He immediately disappeared behind the tent and cut the throat of a little girl-slave belonging to him, and was in the act of cooking her, when one of our soldiers saw him, and reported what he was doing.

This cannibal was put in irons, but some two months later I found him in such a wretched condition that, fearing he would die, I took him out of the chains, and gave him his liberty with a warning. Scarcely a fortnight had passed, when he was brought in by some of our Hausa soldiers, who said that he was eating the