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Show 54 in his assertions respecting the man-like Apes; nor from any wish to throw suspicion on his veracity .; but because, in my opinion, so long as his narrative rem.ains i_n its present state of unexplained and apparent!~ 1nexphca~le confusion, it has no claim to original author1ty respecting any subject whatsoever. It may be truth, but it is not evidence. 55 African Cannibalism in the Sixteenth Century. In turning over Pigafetta's version of tho narrative of Lopez, which I have quoted above, I came upon so curious and unexpected an anticipation, by some two centuries and a half, of one of the most startling parts of M. Du Chaillu's narrative, that I cannot refrain from drawing attention to it in a note, although I must confess that the subject is not strictly relevant to the matter in hand. In the :fifth chapter of the first book of the" Descriptio," "Concerning the northern part ofthel{ingdom of Congo and its boundaries," is mentioned a people whose king is called 'Maniloango,' and who live under the equator, and as far westward as Cape Lopez. This appears to be the country now inhabited by the Ogobai and Bakalai iaccording toM. Du Chaillu.-"Beyond these dwell another people called 'Anziques,' of incredible ferocity, for they eat one another, sparing neiFIG. 12.-Butcllor's Shop of the Anziqucs, Anno 1598. ther friends no1· relations." These people are armed with small bows bound tightly round with snake skins, and strung with a reed or rush. Their arrows, short and slender, but made o£ hard wood, are shot with great rapidity. They have iron axes, the handles of which are bound round with snake skins, and swords with scabbards of the same material; for defensive armour they employ elephant hides. They cut their skins when young, so as to produce scars. " Their butchers' shops are :filled with |