Note 13 — Chapter V
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Barbot, in his account of the Ansiko kingdom, says: “That which is most inhuman is, that the father makes no difficulty to eat the son, nor the son the father, nor one brother the other; and whosoever dies, be the disease ever so contagious, yet they eat the flesh immediately as a choice dish.”—Barbot, in Churchill’s Collection, vol. v. p. 479.