Anthropophagi
; -♦— - For some , time, there have been embassies from all parts of the world at Paris. •".''" 7 Receatly there' was an embassy from a people of Polynesia, who are somewhat suspectedof cannibalism. ','..' One of the envoys of this mission dined the other, day with an attache of the^diplomatic body at one of the great .restauran'tslof .Paris. When; the .roast meat was introduced, the ! maitre d'lioiel presents it solemnly: -! Haunch, of roe-buck ; Wolseley ; : Wolseley means here pepper-sauce. : The dish is carved and pronounced excellent. [.'"'The; Polynesian envoy, who' had remarked -the- respect with which the haunch was presented, politely asked of the attache: •.;>.■ '.' It "is one. of your own relations ?'•— le Figaro. : '
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 68, 10 November 1883, Page 3
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111Anthropophagi Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 68, 10 November 1883, Page 3
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