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Cannibalism

2 passages in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

It was after a great feast given by his father the king, on the gaining of a great battle wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o’clock in the afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.

Chapter 17, The Ramadan · verse 25

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Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal’s jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?

Chapter 65, The Whale as a Dish · verse 10

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