Cannibalism.
«. . At Canton a horrible tragedy is being whispered about. A hungry slave girl had stolen some food, whereupon her mistress b:-at her black and blue. Not content with this castigation, the savage brute cut a slice out of the poor girl's thigh and made her cock it and eat it. Next day the slave girl died. The mistress became alarmed, and tried to conceal the corpse, but it was discovered. Finding she had got into trouble she called the Kaifong, the Ti Po, and the Lokang together, and paid them twenty taels each. As the deceased was only a slave girl, the arrangement seemed satisfactory to all parties concerned, and the matter is now practically hushed up. — Exchange.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 106, 19 May 1883, Page 3
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119Cannibalism. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 106, 19 May 1883, Page 3
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