Show cannibalism IS STILL ALIVE evidently work remains for miss on arles in aar ca yoa you may be interested to know says J J reynard of the cape to cairo telegraph construction staff that can still survives and Is to my knowledge practiced by the Chi kanda dwelling along the zambezi and shire rivers A case came to my notice last year the body of a celebrated hunter who had succumbed to fever was ex burned and devoured at one fin imbor por tant center of the shire the cemetery has to be guarded to prevent bhe tolle na tives devouring the newly burled buried bodies oodles As far as I 1 know cannibalism la Is not practiced openly by tribes in the country mith which I 1 am acquainted the natives who devour our dead be lieve that if they eat the body of a european they will acquire his intelli gence just as they eat the heart of a lion because they believe they will gain the courage of the lion the mambre of the tanganyika regard the lion as sacred and bellev ing implicitly in the transmigration of the soul hold that the spirit of a dead chief enters into the body of a I 1 on or python those animals are therefore taboo unless they kill man when the taboo is withdrawn |