The Ethiopian
A Narrative of the Society of Human Leopards. A secret society of West African Negros who consume their captured victims. By John Cameron Grant, 1900. (Some libraries classify this book as Fiction, but the publishers Foreword says otherwise. A few news items supporting the activity are reprinted in the Appendix.)
“God’s stars came out and paled and passed away before the fair young moon; His winds went to the sea, and the cry of all His creatures rose to Him through the great African forests, seeking each his food and prey from God. To Him from amid all the carnage of nature, from every tooth and talon that she swayed, came no appeal against cruelty; for cruelty loses its name and meaning when it becomes necessity, and none blame the hungry when they eat.”
“God’s stars came out and paled and passed away before the fair young moon; His winds went to the sea, and the cry of all His creatures rose to Him through the great African forests, seeking each his food and prey from God. To Him from amid all the carnage of nature, from every tooth and talon that she swayed, came no appeal against cruelty; for cruelty loses its name and meaning when it becomes necessity, and none blame the hungry when they eat.”