in 1777, one Samuel Thorley, A BU CHERS, FOLLOWER, was try'd for the murder of Ann

place of execution, that there gather'd a great multitude of people about her, and fpecially of women, curfeing and warying that she was fo unhapy [i. e. mischievous] to commit fuch damnable deeds: to whom the turn'd about, with a wood [i. e. mad] and furious countenance, faying, Wherefore chide ye with me, as i had commited an unworthy crime? Give me credit, and trow [i.e. believe] me, if ye had experience of eating mans and womans flesh, ye would think the fame fo delicious, that ye would never forbear it again." (History of Scoland, p. 65.) This young woman was by no means fingular in the preference she gave to human flesh: the cannibals, according to doctor Moffet, praifeing it above all other, as Oforius writeeth: "and Cambletes king of Lydia, haveing eaten of his own wife, fay'd he was forry to have been ignorant fo long of fo good a difh." (Healths improvement, p. 160-1.) "Dureing a dreadful famine in India," fays J. de Lonseiro, "which deftroy'd more than a hundred thousand perfons, when the roads and ftreets were cover'd with dead bodys, i faw feveral have the refolution to preserve their lives by this disgusting food [human flefh]; but fome of them, though not many, found it fo delicious, that, when the famine was at an end, they retain'd fuch an irresistible propenfity to human flesh, that they lay in wait for the liveing, in order to devour them :" ading, in particular, two inftanceës, of a mountaineer and a woman. (Obfervations on the inducements to eating human flesh, Philofopbical magazine, for Auguft 1799.)

In 1768 the ravagees of famine were fo great at Patna, a large city in the kingdom of Bahar, that hundreds of Indians perish'd dayly for want of food. The furviveërs began even

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Smith, a ballad-finger, about twenty-two years of age. He decoy'd her, lay with her, murder'd

to attempt fatisfying their craveing hunger with the flesh of the dead, in order to preferve their own existence. Stavorinus, Voyages to the E. Indies, I, 152. (This dreadful calamity, he obferves, may chiefly be attributed to the monopoly which the Engleish had made of the rice.)

Moryfon, haveing made mention of the Engleifh army in Ireland, "deftroying the rebels corn, and useing," as he fays, "all meanes to famish them," proceeds, by two or three examples, to fhew the miferable estate to which they were reduce'd. "Sir Arthur Chichester, sir Rich. Moryfon, and the other commanders of the forceës, sent against Brian Macart, in their return homeward, faw a most horrible fpectacle of three children (whereof the eldest was not above ten years old), all eating and gnawing with their teeth the entrails of their dead mother, upon whose flesh they had fed twenty days paft. . . . Captain Trevor, and many honeft gentlemen, lying in the Newry, can witness, that fome old women of those parts ufe'd to make a fier in the fields, and divers little children driveing out the cattel in the cold mornings, and comming thither to warm them, were by them surprise'd, kil'd, and eaten." (Itinerary, Part 2, page 271.)

"About the year 1652 and 1653 the plague and famine had so swept away whole countrys, that a man might travel twenty or thirty miles, and not fee a liveing creature, either man, beast, or bird;" they being all dead, or haveing quited thefe defolate placeës..." I have feen," fays the writeër, "thofe miferable creatures [ageed men, women, and children] plucking ftinking carrion out of a ditch, black and rotten; and have been credibly inform'd, that they digged corpfes out of the grave to eat. But the most tragical story i ever hear'd

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her, cut her to pieceës, and ate part of her. The circumstanceës were too fhocking to relate. He was convicted [executed], and afterward hung in chains.*

The inhabitants of Decba, in the province of Guzerat, in India, according to Thevenot, were formerly man-eaters, and "it is not long fince," he fays, "that mans flesh was there publickly fold in the markets;" as it is fay'd to have

was from an officer commanding a party of horse, who, hunting for tories [Irish] in a dark night, difcover'd a light : ... drawing near, they found it a ruin'd cabin, and befeting it round, fome did alight and peep in at the window, where they faw a great fire of wood, and a company of miferable old women and children fiting round about it, and betwixt them and the fire a dead corpfe lay broiling, which, as the fire roafted, they cut off collops [from] and ate.'" (Colonel Lawrences Intereft of Ireland, 2d part, p. 86, 87, citeed in Currys Review, II, 105.) Such were the blessings of Ireland under the protection of Engleifh humanity! Unless the royal army, and national militia, and Orange volunteers, are much belye'd, the crueltys they commited upon the miferable Irish rebels, of all ageës, ranks, and fexes, were scarcely less than those allready describe'd. The compileër of these pagees, as he was fiting at dinner in a gentlemans house, hear'd the colonel of a regiment acknowlege, with horrour, the wretches he had put to death, in cold blood (which he and others prefent, cannot fail to recollect). *Annual register, for that year.

Travels, Part 3, page 7. China.

fometimes been, in those of Cochin-China.* Human flesh is allso, at this day, eaten in the iland of Sumatra by the Bata people.†

Aroe Tanete, king of Soping and the Bouginefe, like the ancient inhabitants of Celebes, was a cannibal, and remarkablely fond of human flesh, fo that he even ufe'd to faten his prifoners, and, cuting their heart out alive, ate it raw, with pepper and falt, esteeming it the most delicious mor. fel of all. I

The Andamants, a nation of ilanders in the gulf of Bengal, are fuch barbarous favageës as to kil all who are unhapy enough to be driveën upon their coaft, "and eat them for food."§.

The Anzigues, a nation of Africa, endue'd with many temporal benefits, and abounding with natures blesfings, delight in eating mans flesh more than any other food, coveting even their friends, whom they embowel with a greedy delight, faying, they can no way better express. true affection than to incorporate their dearest friends and relations into themselves, as in love

* Sir James Stauntons Account of the embassy to China, I, 347.

Marsdens History of Sumatra, p. 298.

Stavorinus, Voyage to the E. Indies, II, 221.

§ Duquesnes Voyage to the E. Indies, p. 120.

before, now in body, uniteing two in one. They have, allfo, fhambles of men and womens flesh, jointed and cut in feveral pieceës, and fome, weary of life, voluntarily proffer themselves to the butcher, and are accordingly fod and eaten.*

The Zuakins, another nation of this quarter, fhew a feeming humanity to fuch strangers as are fhipwreck'd on their coaft, allowing them a convenient place to lodge in, with plenty of animal food to eat, and fometimes entertain them with their musick," and then deftroy the fateft, as they have occafion to feast on them."

The negros, from the inland parts, are, allmost, without exception, anthropophagi, have a terrible, tiger-like, fcarcely human afpect, and pointed or jaged teeth, clofeing together like thofe of a fox. Most of these are so fierce and greedy after human flesh, that they bite large pieceës out of the arms or legs of their neighbours, and fellowflaves, which they fwallow with great avidity.

Robert More, furgeon of The Italian galley, being fent by his commander, captain John

*Herberts Travaile, 1634, p. 10.

+ Hamiltons Account of the E. Indies, I, 30. He ads a shocking instance of the crew of a Turkish galley, half of which was, from time to time, put to the spit.

Selections from literary journals, 1798, I, 452; cites Oldendorp, p. 285.