Note 560 — Chapter VI · THE FINDING OF STRANGE COASTS.
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Footnote 560: Martyr, Epist. cxlvii. ad Pomponium Lætum; cf. Odyssey, x. 119; Thucyd. vi. 2.—Irving (vol. i. p. 385) finds it hard to believe these stories, but the prevalence of cannibalism, not only in these islands, but throughout a very large part of aboriginal America, has been superabundantly proved.[Back to Main Text]