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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER IX
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The savages drive their prisoners before them, and these are reserved for killing at a later time.

During Schweinfurth's residence at the Court of Munza it was generally understood that nearly every day a little child was sacrificed to supply a meal for the ogre potentate.

For centuries past the slave trade in the Congo Basin has been conducted largely for the purpose of furnishing human flesh to consumers.

Slaves are sold and bought in great numbers for market, and are fattened for slaughter.
"The Mundurucus of the Upper Amazon, who are exceedingly ferocious, have been accused of cannibalism.

It is they who preserve human heads in such a remarkable way.


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