even the savages of Central Africa recognise, in common with our own cooks, that fat in some form is a necessary ingredient of different dishes.

During the war in which we were engaged for two years, with our enormous crowds of camp followers we reaped perhaps the only advantages that could be claimed for this disgusting custom. In the night following a battle or the storming of a town, these human wolves disposed of all the dead, leaving nothing even for the jackals, and thus saved us, no doubt, from many an epidemic. A man with his eyes open has no difficulty in knowing, from the horrible remains he is obliged to pass on his way, what people have preceded him on the road or battlefield; — with this difference: that on a battlefield he will find those parts left to the jackals which the human wolves have not found