AFRICAN CANNIBALISM IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
Fig. 12.— Butcher's Shop of the Anziques, Anno 1598.
In turning, over Pigafetta's version of the 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 of the Kingdom 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 according to M. Du Chaillu.—"Beyond these dwell another people called 'Anziques,' of incredible ferocity, for they eat one another, sparing neither friends nor relations."
