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THIS is a moral story. You may go to the black countries for your morals and take from cannibal peoples a most reliable code of ethics. For cannibal folk are fastidious to a degree, eminently modest -- though a photograph of the average Bogra native would leave you in some doubt -- clean of speech and thought and habit. If they chop men it is because they like food of that particular type. They are no better and no worse than vegetarians, who are also faddy in the matter of foodstuffs.
Native peoples have a code of their own, and take some account of family obligations.