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Show Haman Flesh Eaters. In the northern part of Canada there are Btill several Indian tribes who ate human flesh. In Guiana and in the Orinoco we still find Caribbeans who have the honor of having furnished the name for that terrible custom of eating eat-ing human flesh. Cannibal comes from Caribs or Caribales, corruptions of Gali-bis Gali-bis or Canibis, the name of the inhabitants inhabit-ants of the Antilles when Columbus arrived ar-rived there. On the upper Amazon, between be-tween the rivers and the borders of the Bolivia, live the Tupis Guaranlens, who manifest a liking for human flesh. Cannibals are common in Australasia, the Papuans, Karnkiens and Battakiens being the most distinguished. Cannibalism Canni-balism is, however, considered the main trait of the New Hebrides. There are more human flesh eaters in Africa than anywhere elea Cannibalism is not a sign of a low state of civilization, for many cannibal races stand higher in culture than those who abhor the custom. Many cannibals live in regions full of ordinary food, but they prefer human flesh as a delicacy, the men forbidding their wives and slaves to eat it. In northern Australasia it seems that the dead are eaten. Herodotus Herod-otus tells us that it was the custom in India for the young to kill the old and eat them to insure their future salvation, salva-tion, and we are told that the old folks desire to bo killed before they grow too old and less appetizing. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. |