The
Indians of North America consider a broth made from the dung of
the hare and caribou a dainty dish, and according to Abbe
Domenech, as a means of imparting a flavor, the bands near Lake
Superior mix their rice with the excrement of rabbits. De Bry
mentions that the negroes of Guinea ate filthy, stinking
elephant-meat and buffalo-flesh infested with thousands of
maggots, and says that they ravenously devoured dogs' guts raw.
Spencer, in his "Descriptive Sociology," describes a "Snake
savage" of Australia who devoured the contents of entrails of an
animal. Some authors have said that within the last century the
Hottentots devoured the flesh and the entrails of wild beasts,
uncleansed of their filth and excrement, and whether sound or
rotten. In a personal letter to Captain Bourke, the Reverend J.
Owen Dorsey reports that while among the Ponkas he saw a woman
and child devour the entrails of a beef with their contents.
Bourke also cites instances in which human ordure was eaten by
East Indian fanatics. Numerous authorities are quoted by Bourke
to prove the alleged use of ordure in food by the ancient
Israelites. Pages of such reference are to be found in the works
on Scatology, and for further reference the reader is referred to
books on this subject, of which prominent in English literature
is that of Bourke.
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