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Show Why Ilea Ara Cannibals. Some grewaome Information bos been collected by a member of the European medical fraternity In relation to tribes that cat men. A Frenchman figures that 20 per cent of all cannibals cat the dead In order to glorify them; It per cent eat great warriors In order that they may Inherit their courage, and eat dead children In order to renew re-new their youth; 10 per cent partake of their near relative from religious motives, either In connection with Initiatory Ini-tiatory lite or to glorify deities, and 5 per cent feast In order to avenge themselves upon their enemies. Thcwe who devour human flesh because of famine are reckoned at 18 per cent. In short, deducting all these, there remain re-main only a portion or 24 per cent who partake or human flesh because they prefer It to other means of alimentation. ali-mentation. In the heart of Africa, man-eating la continued to thla day, and to such an extent that In certain villages ribs and quarters cf man meat can be bought. It Is easier for tha native there to kill men when they desire flesh than to go to the exertion of hunting game. |