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The following is taken from an 1865 children's book called The Church Missionary Juvenile Instructor. It is excerpted in the fantastic collection by Nigel Temple called Seen and Not Heard. Enjoy!
In the Island of Hayti a man and his wife stole one of their own nieces, a girl about eight years of age, strangled her, flayed her, cut her up, cooked her, and then devoured her, offering the blood to their god--the snake.
Never let us forget that 'the dark places of the earth' are still 'the habitations of cruelty.'
