Cannibalism was almost universal, either in the case of enemies killed in battle or when animal food was scarce.
Cannibalism seems also to have sometimes been in the nature of a funeral observance, in honour of the deceased, of whom the relatives reverently ate portions.
Busk believes, however, that the facts are insufficient to support the charge of cannibalism against the ancient Portuguese.
So far as this trade had influence, it effected almost a total abolition of cannibalism among them.
Another curious fragment goes from cannibalism to the origin of pigs.
From such references to cannibalism as we have at pp.
And now we have a glimpse of the nature and workings of that religious sentiment which prompted cannibalism wherever it has been practised.
There is something that looks very much like cannibalismin the sixth chapter of John's Gospel.
Even in some regions where cannibalismhas long since been prohibited there are traditions and traces of its former existence as a purely religious rite.
At this stage alsocannibalism appears, which is still met with among some tribes in Africa, Australia and Polynesia.
The result is a more sedentary mode of life with an accompanying increase in provisions and greater diversity of same, and graduallycannibalism disappears.
Dreadful as the horrors of cannibalism had been to their imagination, the knowledge that the reality would soon be enacted so near at hand was overpowering.
It was remote from the usual trade-tracks, and for this reason had remained longer in heathendom and cannibalism than most of the Pacific Islands.
Among the Dieyerie tribe cannibalism is the universal practice, and all who die are indiscriminately devoured .
Cannibalism was indulged in occasionally in more remote times, but not, as in Fiji, owing to a relish for human flesh, but merely as a climax of hatred and revenge.
Their ferocity and cannibalism put them on a level with Fijians, making them a terror to navigators, while in some other respects they appear to have been somewhat superior to most of their Polynesian cousins, the Tongans excepted.
We know on the best authorities that the disgusting practice of cannibalism prevailed extensively among the natives.
What the navigators wrote regarding the cannibalism and cruelty of these savages he accepts as a matter of course; but to doubt their immaculate purity is high treason!
Cannibalism Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
This is strongly insisted on, being repeated three times, and it was to drive the wretched inhabitants to cannibalism of the most revolting kind, which it actually did.
The charge of cannibalism against these miserable beings rests on no other foundation than the allegations of Chinese sailors, and the vague statements of Ptolemy and the Arabs above mentioned.
And yet, again, it is only a seeming; for it might be shown that with the Papuan cannibalism is not a natural instinct.
Now and then, a junk has been wrecked among these rocks; and its miserable crew have fallen a victim to the hostility of the natives: just as they might have done on more civilised coasts, where no cannibalism was ever suspected to exist.
The largest erection in Tahiti was constructed by the generation living at the time of Captain Cook's visit, and the practice of cannibalism had been recently abandoned.
So among the Haida Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands there is one religion of cannibalism and another of dog-eating.
In fact, cannibalism is an extraordinary perversion of human nature, arising it is difficult to say exactly how, and only showing itself among particular people and under peculiar conditions.
Vespucius, in his letter to Lorenzo de’ Medici, was the first to describe the cannibalism of the Brazilians.
Cannibalism is spread over many parts of Negro Africa, yet the very tribes who practice cannibalism show often other traits of industry and power.
Even when we contemplate such revolting survivals of savagery as cannibalism we cannot jump too quickly at conclusions.
Right here, let me explain that cannibalism is not practised because of any love of human flesh, but rather because the natives believe that they acquire the fighting qualities of the men that they eat.
If there were more such missionaries in the South Seas, cannibalism and heathenism would soon be a thing of the past.
If cannibalism existed on the Plateau, it was rare, though it still remains among some of the wildest of the Amazonian tribes.
I often wonder now whether explorers who follow in my track will notice the absence of cannibalism and the friendly overtures of the natives.
Certainly they had known ofcannibalism in their old camp, but I told them that my own people were a superior race of natives, who were not addicted to this loathsome practice.
Sicilian cannibalismcan be pardoned, but Neapolitan loyalty, never!
In these, however, I have not touched on the subject of cannibalism attributed to the natives, because this deserves separate treatment here.
The cause of humanity justifies a war to put an end to such evils as cannibalism or human sacrifice.
Cannibalism seems to be lawful in extreme necessity, but it is not lawful to kill human beings in order to eat them.
III The Higher Cannibalism It is not unnatural to claim, therefore, that the most immediate and important short-cut in knowledge that the comprehensive or educated man can take comes to him through his human and personal relations.
