Note 10 — Chapter XI · PERSONAL RIGHTS AND OFFENCES AGAINST THEM.

Stanley in How I Found Livingstone, mentions that the natives in Unyanyembe, on killing an enemy, eat “the skin of the forehead, the lower part of the face, the forepart of the nose, the fat over the stomach and abdomen, the genital organs, and a bit from each heel”. Hence we see that African tribes, although living far apart, practice similar forms of mutilation.