the present time. The following is from the pen of Herodotus, the eldest of the Greek historians (see his work as translated, p. 170), where it is recorded respecting the Lybian negroes: "If any man among them appeared to be diseased, his nearest connections put him to death immediately, alledging in excuse that sickness would waste and injure his flesh. They pay no regard to his assertion, that he is not really ill, but without the least compunction, deprive him of his life," and then devour him when cooked.
From the time of Moses to the time of Herodotus, was a lapse of more than one thousand years. From the time of Herodotus to the time of the thirteenth century of the Christian era, when, according to Baron Humboldt and other good authorities, cannibalism was entirely universal in Egypt, among the negro class of the people, was a lapse of some fifteen hundred years; and from the thirteenth century to the present time, is some four hundred more; amounting in all to full three thousand years of the history of that race, in which they have been, irrespective of civilization, actually more or less in the practice of the dreadful crime of eating human flesh, as an article of food; not from necessity, nor on account of the requirements of their religion, but wholly from the common desire of that kind of food, the same as dogs or any other carnivorous animal.
It was but a few years since, 1839, that a part of the crew of the vessel Colonel Crocket, which sailed from Newburgh, N. Y., to Africa, was devoured by the negro cannibals, on the Delago river, inland about a hundred miles, while engaged on a hunting excur-
