ing tribes, went out on marauding excursions to plunder and capture their own race, as has been the custom of all Africa, in all ages, they always selected from among their female slaves as many as they judged necessary for their support on their way, whom they killed as they went, for food, having used them as their wives till the time of butchering them came. — Edinburgh Enc., vol. ii, p. 185.
Is it possible to conceive of any condition in human life so utterly horrible — so far removed from the common sympathies and moral feelings of humanity — so deeply damned as were this community of negroes? And yet their character was but in perfect keeping, more or less, with every horde, tribe, and nation, of the race, whether we go back to the first ages of their being in Asia and Africa, or look at them after the lapse of thousands of years, and as they are now, in their own untaught character, as found in the islands, woods, and mountains, of their blood-stained country.
The Rev. Mr. Brown, of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Africa, related, when on a recent visit to America, some appalling accounts of cannibalism, as seen and known by himself. He related that he had seen some ten or a dozen men buy a prisoner from a tribe who had taken him in battle, and, tying his hands behind his back, fell upon him with knives, cutting off pieces of his body as the victim went, who filled the air with yells and cries for mercy, till he fell down from a loss of blood, when he was entirely devoured, except the bones. The Rev. Barnabas Shaw, a Wesleyan Missionary, in his Memorials of
