with them all her dejection and terrors, and became as garrulous as ever. Dalclutha reposed on a couch covered with soft skins; but Utha, admiring every thing, wandered from tent to tent, determined to see all their treasures, and learn from the slaves what apartment was designed for her in this magnificent tabernacle of the mountains. Dunalbion sat beside the princess, and, taking up a harp, struck a few chords with the gifted hand of a perfect master of harmony; then flinging the instrument aside, he unrolled a volume, and read to his affianced bride one of the beautiful odes of Horatius, with which the gentle maiden was delighted.* He had scarcely ended when a fearful shrieking was heard from the inner tent, and in a few moments Utha came running into the apartment of the chief, uttering screams of terror, and exclaiming-" "Tis true! 'tis true! al! I have heard of these infernal demons is true!-O, lady, lady, I shall die with horror!" and then fell senseless on the ground.

Dunalbion raised her in his arms, and laid her on a couch, while the princess, wondering at her strange alarms, tenderly endeavoured to restore her to animation. A flourish of music burst suddenly forth from an adjoining tent, and several slaves entered, to inform their lord that the bridal banquet awaited his presence.

"Come, sweet maiden," said Dunalbion, "we must leave thy attendant in the care of these faithful slaves, who will soon restore her to her senses; while we sit down in state at the banquet, where thou must appear before the chiefs and elders of my tribe, and, where thy charms will shed a lustre o'er their dark and savage sternness, and calm the turbulence of their warlike spirits into silent respect and admiration; even as the lovely moonlight falls on the broad and massy heavings of the yet angry bosom of the ocean, when the storm hath departed, and the voice of the seafaring winds is stilled, by the magic influence of her beauty, into peace."

Dunalbion led the maiden, smiling in her loveliness, amid the banqueting pavilion. Numerous torchbearers stood in lines along the sides of the tent, and two hundred stern warriors, with visages begrimed with various hues, appeared waiting to receive her. The harps of the bards rang with war-songs of ferocious triumph; and dancers in wild and uncouth garb began their noisy sports and merri⚫ See Hist. of Manch. vol. i. p. 310.

ment. But who can describe the horrors of the infernal feast, with which these grim and wolf-eyed anthopophagi of the north were eager to glut their accursed appetite? The dishes were filled with the heads and limbs of their wretched captives, prepared in different ways, and with the wasted paps of women, considered by these savage banqueters as the most delicious repast; while, as a mark of the hatred which they bore their enemies, the visage of each warrior was smeared with fresh blood.*

The fact is, that in all ages, let who will assert the contrary, cannibalism among wild and wandering tribes has existed, and still exists to the present time.

Among a mass of evidence on this subject, we shall select a few notes: In the reign of David II. king of Scotland, a man named Christian Cleik, with his wife, subsisted on the flesh of children, whom they caught in traps and devoured. These wretched cannibals were detected, condemned, and burnt. These were Burkites of no modern date.

The horrid banquet which Tosti prepared when he left the court, enraged with his brother Harold for possessing a greater share of the royal favour than himself, was a species of cannibalism. He retired to Hereford, and cutting off the heads and limbs of Harold's servants, placed them in the vessels of wine, mead, ale, pigment, &c., and sent a message to the king, informing him that he would find plenty of salt meat for his fare.-Vide HEN. HUNT. lib. vi. p. 067.

Diaz, who was with Cortes when he besieged Mexico, says the Indian auxiliaries had one means of subsistence more than the Spaniards, for they fed on the bodies of the Mexicans whom they killed in battle; and that when these auxiliaries of Cortes returned to their own country, they carried with them large quantities of the flesh of the Mexicans, salted or dried, as the most acceptable present to their friends, that they might have the pleasure of feeding on the bodies of their enemies at their festivals. Both Diaz and Cortes mention these Indian repasts as being familiar to them.HIST. AMER.

Dr. Leyden says the Battas of Sumatra eat their own relations. A class of mendicants, termed Agbrah Punt'h, in Bengal, and other parts of India, practice anthropophagy. See ASIATIC RESEARCHES, vol. x.

The Abbé Raynal says, that the ambition of the Brazilians was to make great many prisoners, who were slain and eaten with solemnity. During the feast, the old men exhorted the young ones to become intrepid warriors, that they might often procure themselves such an honourable repast, &c.

The Læstrigones were a savage people of Italy, who roasted and ate the companions of Ulysses. The Mysi, a people of Asia, in the vicinity of Troas, killed and ate such prisoners as they took in war.-FLOR. lib. iv. c. 12, and SCHEDIUS DE DIIS GERMANIS, p. 403.

Herodotus, in his description of the Scythians, says that, to the north of a certain desert, there was a nation in his time, called Andropophagi, from their feasting on human flesh.-KERO. MELPHо. lib. iv. See also his account of the Padaivi, or Paday.

Even the Romans are not without examples of these horrid barbarities, for Dio. Cass. asserts that Anthony and his confederates, when they plotted to overthrow the Roman Government, having sacrificed a boy, took an oath,

The princess, at this detested sight of the man-eaters, uttered a shriek of agony and horror, and sunk insensible into the arms of Dunalbion, who instantly bore her from the banquet of death back to the splendid tent-hall, where Utha, restored to life, sat weeping and wringing her hands in the vehemence of grief and despair.

"Ah! sweet lady," she exclaimed, "you, I perceive, have also seen those horrifying sights, worse than a thousand bloody executions! Sad was the day when you first listened to the betraying tongue of that terrible seducer! Ah, woe is me! that we should have been brought to the infernal abode. of these execrable wretches! the wolfish brutes! O what a fool was I to suffer you, my dear, sweet, injured child, to have intercourse with that man-devouring savage in the forest! O, I faint again at the very sight of him! Ah, lady, lady, what will become of us?-she is dead! she is surely dead! O, ye gods, have pity on us!-The sight of your hellish banquets has destroyed the loveliest maiden in all the kingdom of Britain,-and well it may. I shall never be able to swallow another morsel of food while I tarry in these accursed tents: O, I shall be devoured myself, no doubt; and my poor limbs served up in dishes, as tit-bits for these monsters to gormandize; my bones picked clean, and then flung to their dogs! The blue lightnings burn

with horrible solemnity, over his entrails, which the conspirators afterwards devoured.

During a great dearth in the land of Egypt, (in the year 597,) men were compelled to eat each other and their own children.-See the UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF ELMACIN, part of which was published by Erpenius, under the title of "HISTORIA SARACENICA."

Strabo, Diodorus, Pomponius Mela, Solinus, and other classic writers, assert that the ancient Irish were devourers of their own species.

St. Jerome says, why do I speak of other nations, when I saw the Scots, who inhabit a considerable part of the Island of Britain, eat human flesh; and when they found in the woods shepherds and swineherds, they cut off the hips of the men and the paps of the women, which they esteemed as the most delicious dainties.

The Canaanites, at their human sacrifices, seem also to have been guilty of this disgusting taste; for we read in the Psalms, "and they ate of the sacrifices of the dead."

"They sometimes roasted and devoured the flesh of their infant and adult captives. Among the Turks and Saracens the idolators of Europe were rendered more odious by the name and reputation of cannibals. The spies who introduced themselves into the kitchen of Bohemond, were shown several human bodies turning on the spit; and the artful Norman encouraged a report which increased at the same time the ablorence and the terror of the infidels."-GIBBON.

them all to a sinder! I am sure they deserve worse punishment!"

"Silence!" said Dunalbion sternly, "thy mistress is reviving."

"Ah, better," continued the nurse, "that she never should revive! O, my poor flesh and bones, that ye should come to this at last! That ever I should be cut up alive for roast meat, or stewed down for pottage in a kettle! But my injured ghost shall bitterly torment you all; I will hover over your feasts in a cloud of thunder, snatch my bones from your devouring jaws, and dash all your blood-drenched dishes at your heads!-O, I am quite distraught with rage

and horror!"

Dalclutha slowly opened her languid eyes, exclaiming:

"To what infernal regions have I been conveyed? O, that dreadful banquet! I see it still before me-the flesh of my fellow-creatures served up to be devoured at foul and wolfish carousal! Ah, stand off-touch me not, Dunalbion! Thou, whom I thought a god, art transformed to a terrific demon of the mountain wilds, who quaffs the blood of babes, and feeds on the flesh of his captives! Thou art defiled with human gore! Thou, whom my soul so ardently adored-thou to be a detested cannibal! O, 'tis past all endurance! But soon my heart will break-it cannot long support this sudden and dreadful shock-I feel 'tis breaking now! And soon mayst thou feed on her-thou-ah! madness flashes across my whirling brain! Dunalbion, Dunalbion! has all thy fondness come to this? Are these, O man of terrors, the joys of our espousal hour? These banquets of blood and death, the welcoming thou giv'st thy wretched bride? Draw forth thy sword, plunge it into my tortured bosom, and, in mercy, I impore thee, rid me at once of this hated life!"*

"A select band of the fairest maidens of China was annually devoted to the rude embraces of the Huns, and the alliance of the haughty Tanjous was secured by their marriage with the genuine or adopted daughters of the imperial family, which vainly attempted to escape the sacrilegious pollution. The situation of these unhappy victims is described in the verses of a Chinese princess, who laments that she had been condemned by her parents to distant exile, under a barbarian husband; she complains that sour milk was her only drink, raw flesh her only food, a tent her only palace; and who expresses, in a strain of pathetic simplicity, the natural wish that she were transformed into a bird, to fly back to her dear country, the object of her tender and perpetual regret."--GIBBON.

"Tell me, rather, to bury it deep in my own," replied the chief, "since I am become so hateful to thee by the ancient customs of our warlike tribe. Captives are, by our laws, irrivocably doomed to death, unless released by ransom ;--and what is a dead captive more than a dead dog? But since, for this practice of our forefathers, practised by many nations, thou despisest and abhorest me-me, whom so late thou fondly lovest-I will convey thee and thine attendant in safety back to the shores of thy native country.”

All the gods above be praised for that!" interrupted Utha; "I breathe freely once more; and my poor flesh and bones will be saved this time from the spit and the seethingcauldron."

"And when I bid thee for ever farewell," continued Dunalbion; "I solemnly swear by the gods of my forefathers, thou shalt behold me fall on this good sword, and view my heart's best blood bedew the land of thy birth. Ah! then, perchance, as thou shalt cast back thy lovely eyes on my dying form, thou mayst feel some lingering spark of pity for him thou once so dearly lovedst, thine affianced husband, and e'en bedew his pallid corse with tears of regret, if not of affection. Yet never, cruel maid, shalt thou be forsaken by me; for when the eternal principle within shall mount to join the mighty spirits of my forefathers, who float on the lightning cloud, and dwell entabernacled in the mountain tempest, oft will I descend to visit and hover around thee, as thy guardian genius, to protect thee from every harm. And wilt thou leave me, Dalclutha? for ever leave me? Wilt thou, canst thou see me die, and by my own hand?”

"O, Dunalbion," answered the princess, "this struggle is dreadful!-How can I tarry here to witness the soulharrowing banquets of thy cannibal followers? How can I dwell with one who feasts on his fellow-men? That thou shouldst be one of those my blood runs cold to name, overwhelms me with the agony of despair! And yet, can I leave thee? for ever leave thee, and see thee perish by thine own hand?-O, despatch me first. Be merciful, Dunalbion, and strike at once. Pray thou-for the pardon of thy crimes, then let us die together; that, purified from the guilt of thy barbarous tribes, we may mount embracing to the realms of blessedness. It were hopeless desperation to live another day, for never can I here enjoy one moment of happiness or peace again!"