A Visit to Lake Chiuta, British Central Africa

the space given in a book of serious travel to portraits of private fiiends, .and to such meaningless embellishments as those which adorn the commenceinent of each section. The book would also have greatly gained in value if Baron von Brenner had marked more clearly which of the many interesting facts collected by him we owe to his own personal observation, and which to his careful study of the works of previous travellers. This is especially regrettable in the chapters which he devotes to the people. There is, it is true, at the end of the book, a list of authors, but this helps us little, as but few references to their works are given in the text. We farther are at issue with the title of the book, ' Visit to the Cannibals of Sumatra,' as being both sensational .and misleading. The author spent some weeks with the gentle Karo Bataks, who are not cannibals, but he only made a rush through a portion of the cannibal districts, during a large part of which time (a week) he had no alternative but to remain afloat upon the Toba lake, and consequently saw but little of the inhabitants of its inhospitable :shores

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