The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-27

went away in great fear, for the travel.
er took him so roughly to task for his
want OF hospitality in sending him moth.
ing to eat, and still more for his hostile
demonstrations-a scolding which was
accompanied by repeated blows of the
hst on the table-that Wanda was at
his wits end. When, in addition to
this, the travellers attendants pointed
out to the King the awful consequences
which would befall him if
he touched hair of the traveller S
head, who, at word, could make the
earth yawn and give out flames that
would consume him and his people, it
IS easy to understand how penitent
Wanda became, and that as soon as he
went back he sent the Frank 'sa revolving
ragout made out of the entrails of an
elephant at least 200 years DID," This
dainty dish was at once handed over to
Schweinfurth's faithful Bongo bearers !;
but alas! for the credit of King Wan
dos cookery, only to bo rejected by
them with the greatest disdain. By
this time every one in the camp except
our travellers personal attendants was
firmly convinced that he was ssLeaf-
eater,' and that he went about in the
woods and plucked flowers and leaves
only to satisfy the cravings of morbid
vegetarian appetite. ''This Frank"
they said, SIS never so happy as when
he can get into the thicket in forest.
where, dismissing his attendants, he
gathers and devours enormous quanti-
ties of leaves" It was observed, too,
that on such occasions he always came
forth from the woods with an exhiliar-
ated expression and a satiated look;
what further proof, then, was needed
that it was thus he sought and found
his daily food?
The Niams-Niams are good fathers
and mothers, and most devoted hus-
bands. 1t several times happened dur
ing this expedition that Aboo Sammat
and his men had in their passage
through Niam-Niam districts to seize
some OF their women as material guar
anty, and in every case this step brought
the husbands of the pledges thus taken
to reason. AS for their cannibalism.
they have not, unfortunately, the ex-
cuse of the New Zealanders and South
Sea Islanders for this habit; there is
no scarcity Of food to drive them to
prey on their species. for they are very
skillful hunters and live in the very dis
trict whence the best supplies of
ivory are drawn, and which,
besides elephants, abounds in
butfaloes and antelopes Yet the
Nlam-Nlams are not only cannibals
who eat the flesh of men slain in battle,
but they will fall on dying man or
child and pop him in to
their cruldrons, and even dis
turb the dead in their grave to devour
their putrid remains. So inveterate is
this man-eating mania in them and
other tribes, such as the Monbutto,
that Schweinfurth thinks that
fat white man, in spite of the nimbus
of respect and dread which
protects a Frank, could
hardly traverse their country
On the contrary, they fed to Wanda
as to an rsylum, and, having fattened
ON men, now looked on cannibalism
with extreme rversion. At first it
mnst be owned that Schweinfurth could
not believe that he was living among
cannibal race, but the further he went
into the heart of Africa the more he
was convidced of the universally
Of the custom, and at
last he seems to have
looked on it with the eyes of philoso.
pher and to have considered himself on
tie whole indebted to an institution
which added to his collection of human
skulls. Very many specimens which
but few hours before had been boiled
in Niam-Niam or Monbuttoo pot may
now be seen in the Berlin museum neat
ly numbered.