As many as 1000
prisoners have been slaughtered by them at one time after a
successful battle, the bodies being baked in ovens underground.
If the individual consumed had been a redoubtable enemy they
dried his head as a trophy and made flutes of his thigh bones.
"Among the Monbuttos of Africa human fat is commonly employed for
a variety of purposes. The explorer Schweinfurth speaks of
writing out in the evenings his memoranda respecting these people
by the light of a little oil-lamp contrived by himself, which was
supplied with some questionable-looking grease furnished by the
natives. The smell of this grease, he says, could not fail to
arouse one's worst suspicions against the negroes. According to
his account the Monbuttos are the most confirmed cannibals in
Africa. Surrounded as they are by a number of peoples who are
blacker than themselves, and who, being inferior to them in
culture, are held in contempt, they carry on expeditions of war
and plunder which result in the acquisition of a booty especially
coveted by them--namely, human flesh. The bodies of all foes who
fall in battle are distributed on the field among the victors,
and are prepared by drying for transportation. The savages drive
their prisoners before them, and these are reserved for killing
at a later time.
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