the deserters. By a lucky chance, however, he had found a friend in the village, and was the only one of the party not eaten.

His descriptions of what he had seen at the time were quite sickening. Prisoners or servants have often spoken to me in this manner: “We want meat; we know you have not enough goats and fowls to be able to spare us some, but give us that man [indicating one of their number]; he is a lazy fellow, and you'll never get any good out of him, so you may as well give him to us to eat.” The question of cannibalism in Africa has been very little discussed; the great travellers, such as Livingstone, Cameron, Stanley, and Weissman, frequently refer in their works to the simple fact that the peoples they passed through were cannibals, but all details or statement of the causes that led to