Note 244-6 — Chapter II
John J. (John Joseph) Lalor translation
On the frightful cannibalism practiced on the upper Nile, see Schweinfurth in Petermann's geogr. Mettheilungen, IV, 138, seq. Australian women seldom outlive their 30th year. Lubbock, Prehistoric Times, 449. Many are eaten by the men as soon as they begin to get old. (Transactions of the Ethnolog. Society, New Series, III, 248.) A chief of Figi Islands who died recently had eaten 872 men in his lifetime. Lawry, Visit to the Friendly and Fejee Islands, 1850. Even the more highly civilized[TN 78] Mexicans had preserved this abomination. According to Gomara, Cronica de la N. Espana, 229, there were here from 20,000 to 25,000 human sacrifices a year; according to Torquemada, Indiana, VII, 21, even 20,000 children a year. B. Diaz, on the other hand, puts the number down at 2,500 only. Compare Klemm, Kulturgeschichte, V, 103, 207, 216.