A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . conditions. The impression I received from personal inter-course was that the cannibals of the forest wereinfinitely more sympathetic than the people of theopen country, where the trading instinct is in-born. The cannibals are not schemers, and theyare not mean. When they steal they generallygrab. Though in direct opposition to all naturalconjectures, they are among the best types of men,representing the most enlightened and enterprisingof the Congo communities. The practice of cannibalism in certain parts ofthe co
A voice from the Congo : comprising stories, anecdotes, and descriptive notes . conditions. The impression I received from personal inter-course was that the cannibals of the forest wereinfinitely more sympathetic than the people of theopen country, where the trading instinct is in-born. The cannibals are not schemers, and theyare not mean. When they steal they generallygrab. Though in direct opposition to all naturalconjectures, they are among the best types of men,representing the most enlightened and enterprisingof the Congo communities. The practice of cannibalism in certain parts ofthe country is confined to the eating of prisoners ofwar; in other places the bodies of the dead are con-sumed, exception, however, being always made ofthe consumption of the bodies of those who diefrom any malignant form of skin disease. When a chief or head-man dies, the members ofcertain tribes club together and purchase severalslaves; after reducing themselves to a state of drunk-enness they kill and eat them. It was noticeableamong the Bangalas and kindred tribes that a state. w* J>
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