Scotland/Scots > Last years of Livingstone

THE LAST TEARS OF LIVINGSTONE.
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New Zealanders, we were told, were cannibals because
they had killed all their gigantic birds (moa, &c.), and they
were converted from the man-eating persuasion by the in¬
troduction of pigs. But the Manyuema have plenty of pigs
and other domestic animals, and yet they are cannibals.
Into the reasons of their cannibalism I do not enter. They
say that human flesh is not equal to that of goats or pigs ;
it is saltish, and makes them dream of the dead. Why
fine-looking men like them should be so low in the moral
scale can only be attributed to the non-introduction of that
. religion which makes those distinctions among men which
phrenology and other ologies cannot explain.
The religion of Christ is unquestionably the best for
man. I refer to it not as the Protestant, the Catholic, the
Greek, or any order, but to the comprehensive faith which
has spread more widely over the world than most people
imagine, and whose votaries, of whatever name, are bet¬
ter men than any outside the pale. We have, no doubt,
grievous faults, but these, as in Paris, are owing to the want
of religion.
Christians generally are better than the heathens, but
often don’t know it, and they are all immeasurably better
than they believe each other to be.
The Manyuema women, especially far down the Lualaba,
are very pretty and very industrious. The market is with
them a great institution, and they work hard and carry far,
in order to have something to sell.
Markets are established about ten or fifteen miles apart.
There those who raise cassava, maize, grain, and sweet