coorials or canoes, became affected with dropsy; and allowing himself
to be tapped by an ignorant quack, died after a fortnight's illness.
Lieutenant Gullifer sailed down the Rio Negro to the Amazons, and
remained at Para for some months, till he heard from England. From
domestic details he received at Para, he fell into low spirits, and
proceeded to Trinidad, where, one morning, he was found suspended to
a beam under the steeple of the Protestant church! His papers, and
Mr. Smith's, consisting of journals of their travels, were sent to a
brother of Lieutenant Gullifer's, on the Marocco coast of Essequibo,
where I went and saw the papers, and was most anxious to obtain them for
the Geographical Society; but Mr. Gullifer said that he must consult
first with the other relatives.

Among other interesting details I found in the notes, I may mention
the following:--High up the Essequibo they fell in with a nation of
anthropophagi, of the Carib tribe. The chief received the travellers
courteously, and placed before them fish with savoury sauce; which being
removed, two human hands were brought in, and a steak of human flesh!
The travellers thought that this might be part of a baboon of a new
species; however, they declined the invitation to partake, saying that,
in travelling, they were not allowed to eat animal food. The chief
picked the bones of the hands with excellent appetite, and asked them
how they had relished the fruit and the sauce. They replied that the
fish was good and the sauce excellent. To which he answered, "Human
flesh makes the best sauce for any food; these hands and the fish were
all dressed together. You see these Macooshee men, our slaves; we lately
captured these people in war, and their wives we eat from time to time."
The travellers were horrified, but concealed their feelings, and before
they retired for the night, they remarked that the Macooshee females
were confined in a large logie, or shed, surrounded with a stockade of
bamboos; so that, daily the fathers, husbands, and brothers of these
unfortunate women, saw them brought out, knocked on the head, and
devoured by the inhuman cannibals. Lieutenant Gullifer, who was _in
bad condition_, got into his hammock and slept soundly; but Mr.
Smith, being in excellent case, walked about all night, fearing that
their landlord might take a fancy to a steak of white meat. They
afterwards visited a cave, in which was a pool of water; the Indians
requested th