Josephus records the fact that during the siege of Jerusalem, women snatched the bread out of the mouths of their husbands, and in every house where there appeared any semblance of food, a battle ensued and the dearest friends fought with one another to secure the scanty provisions. An instance is recorded where two women are described as agreeing to eat their two sons, during the famine in Lamoine. At the siege of Antioch during the crusades in 1097, a famine, says Bucke, existed in the Christian camp, and human flesh was eagerly devoured. At the siege of Marra the crusaders ate bodies taken from the graves of their adversaries, and the historian (Albert) who records the fact, expresses surprise that they should prefer the flesh of dogs to that of Saracens. In comparatively modern times during the reign of Shah Husseyn in 1716, Ispahan in Persia was besieged by Mahmud, Chief of the Afghans, when the besieged having consumed their horses, mules, camels, the leaves and bark of trees, and even cloth and leather, finished—so great was the famine—with not only eating their neighbors and fellow citizens, but their own offspring. It has been alleged that more human beings were devoured when this investment took place, than ever was known in any previous struggle. CANNIBALISM AT SEA. A sad and recent experience under equally distressing circumstances, is here told of four sailors, who were adrift for eight days in a dory; one of whom was partly eaten by a shipmate: