ouble teeth all
around."

Cannibalism, according to a prominent New York journal, has been
recently made a special study by the Bureau of Ethnology at Washington,
D.C. Data on the subject have been gathered from all parts of the
world, which are particularly interesting in view of discoveries
pointing to the conclusion that this horrible practice is far more
widespread than was imagined. Stanley claims that 30,000,000 cannibals
dwell in the basin of the Congo to-day--people who relish human flesh
above all other meat. Perah, the most peculiar form of cannibalism, is
found in certain mountainous districts of northeast Burmah, where there
are tribes that follow a life in all important respects like that of
wild beasts. These people eat the congealed blood of their enemies.
The blood is poured into bamboo reeds, and in the course of time, being
corked up, it hardens. The filled reeds are hung under the roofs of the
huts, and when a person desires to treat his friends very hospitably
the reeds are broken and the contents devoured.

"The black natives of Australia are all professed cannibals. Dr. Carl
Lumholtz, a Norwegian scientist, spent many months in studying them in
the wilds of the interior. He was alone among these savages, who are
extremely treacherous. Wearing no clothing whatever, and living in
nearly every respect as monkeys do, they know no such thing as
gratitude, and have no feeling that can be properly termed human. Only
fear of the traveler's weapons prevented them from slaying him, and
more than once he had a narrow escape. One of the first of them whom he
employed looked more like a brute than a man. 'When he talked,' says
the doctor, 'he rubbed his belly with complacency, as if the sight of
me made his mouth water.' This individual was regarded with much
respect by his fellows because of his success in procuring human flesh
to eat. These aborigines say that the white man's flesh is salt and
occasions nausea. A Chinaman they consider as good for eating as a
black man, his food being chiefly vegetable.

"The most horrible development of cannibalism among the Australian
blacks is the eating of defunct relatives. When a person dies there
follows an elaborate ceremony, which terminates with the lowering of
the corpse into the grave. In the grave is a man not related to the
deceased, who proceeds to cut off the fat adhering to the muscles of
the face, thighs, arms, and stomach, and passes it around to be
sw