Pygmy tribes and cannibalism in the Congo basin.

We here met with strong evidences of the cannibalism of the natives; at a recently occupied encampment we found several of the bones of a full-grown native that had been cooked, the teeth marks on the edges of a bladebone bearing conclusive evidence as to the purpose to which it had been applied; some of the ribs were lying by the huts with a portion of the meat still on them.

In writing this paper, we do not mean to urge the reintroduction of Cannibalism among us at once.

We cry out in horror against cannibalism as the ne plus ultra of wickedness., but except so far as it involves murder, it is hard to find in it more than a violation of our own convention, while a mystical mind might find more to say for it than for cremation.

They have steadily resisted all attempts to convert them to Christianity, and have practised cannibalism within a very recent period.