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                             ANTHROPOPHAGY,

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                                    BY

                           CHARLES W. DARLING,

  Cor. Sec. of The Oneida Historical Society at Utica, N. Y.; Member of
   the American Historical Association; Hon. Member of the Alabama, New
 Jersey, Iowa State, and New York State Chautauqua Historical Societies;
   Cor. Member of the Am. Numismatic and Archæological, and the Buffalo
      Historical Societies, N. Y. S.; Bangor, Maine, New Hampshire,
  Middlebury, Vt., New England Historic Genealogical, Boston, Mass.; New
     Haven Colony, Conn.; Linnæan, Numismatic and Antiquarian of Pa.;
     Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Wisconsin State, Kansas,
            Minnesota and Nebraska State Historical Societies.


                           (PRIVATELY PRINTED.)


                               UTICA, N. Y.
                  T. J. GRIFFITHS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER.
                                  1886.

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                            PREFATORY NOTE.


In giving himself to general reading relating to the origin and history
of the human family, the writer of the following pages was impressed
with the frequent allusion to man-eating among many of the peoples of
the world; and although in itself it is an unattractive subject, and
perhaps to some repellant; for his own amusement, and it may be for the
instruction of others, he has been prompted to collate some of the
references to this unhallowed custom, in a connected form. How well he
has succeeded in his effort he will leave it to the reader to