"A slave boy had been [hired] to work on the station of the agent, at Bangala, of the Belgian Trading Company. After a time, he absented himself during working hours, without the permission of the agent, who complained to the boy's master, a small chief in the neighboring village, informating him at the same time that the boy was a lazy fellow and not worth much. A day or two later the chief told the trader, with evident satisfaction, that the boy would not trouble him again, for that he had killed him with a thrust of his spear; and the white man's horror was increased when, on the following day, the chief's son, a youngster of sixteen or seventeen years of age, came swaggering into the station with spear and shield, and nonchalantly remarked that – "That slave boy was very good eating – he was nice and fat.""
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Herbert Ward, Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (London: Chatto & Windus, 1891), pp.133–134
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