is remarkable by reason
of the elevation and regularity of the temperature during the height of
the day, the clearness of the atmosphere and abundance of light, the
rarity of rain and the absence of fogs.

Cannes is a place of great antiquity, but its earlier history is very
obscure. It was twice destroyed by the Saracens in the 8th and the 10th
centuries; but it was afterwards repeopled by a colony from Genoa.
Opposite the town is the island of Ste Marguerite (one of the Lerins),
in the citadel of which the Man with the Iron Mask was confined from
1686 to 1698, and which acquired notoriety as the prison whence Marshal
Bazaine escaped in August 1874. On the other chief island (St Honorat)
of the Lerins is the famous monastery (5th century to 1788), in
connexion with which grew up the school of Lerins, which had a wide
influence upon piety and literature in the 5th and 6th centuries.

See L. Alliez, _Histoire du monastere de Lerins_ (2 vols., Paris,
1862); and _Les Iles de Lerins, Cannes, et les rivages environnants_
(Paris, 1860); _Cartulaire du monastere de Lerins_ (2 vols., Paris,
1883 and 1905); de Valcourt, _Cannes and its Climate_ (London, 1873);
Joanne, special _Guide to Cannes_; J.R. Green, essay on Cannes and St
Honorat, in the first series of his _Stray Studies_ (1st ed., 1876);
A. Cooper-Marsdin, _The School of Lerins_ (Rochester, 1905).
(W. A. B. C.)

CANNIBALISM, the eating of human flesh by men (from a Latinized form of
Carib, the name of a tribe of South America, formerly found also in the
West Indies), also called "anthropophagy" (Gr. [Greek: authrpspos], man,
and [Greek: phaneiu], to eat). Evidence has been adduced from some of
the palaeolithic cave-dwellings in France to show that the inhabitants
practised cannibalism, at least occasionally. From Herodotus, Strabo and
others we hear of peoples like the Scythian Massagetae, a nomad race
north-east of the Caspian Sea, who killed old people and ate them. In
the middle ages reports, some of them probably untrustworthy, by Marco
Polo and others, attributed cannibalism to the wild tribes of China, the
Tibetans, &c. In our own days cannibalism prevails, or prevailed until
recently, over a great part of West and Central Africa, New Guinea,
Melanesia (especially Fiji) and Australia. New Zealand and the
Polynesian Islands were great centres of the practice. It is extensively
practised by the Battas of Sumatra and in other East Indian