They made no secret of their relish for human flesh. At one place of call where we were landing ..., the savages brought down quite a quantity of the flesh of a young woman whom they had just cooked. In offering parts for sale, they said that if we white men did not like to eat it possibly some of our native boatmen would enjoy it.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "They made no secret of their relish for human flesh. At one place of call where we were landing ..., the savages brought down quite a quantity of the flesh of a young woman whom they had just cooked. In offering parts for sale, they said that if we white men did not like to eat it possibly some of our native boatmen would enjoy it." in the context of "Australian government agent Douglas Rannie describing a visit to New Ireland in the 1880s
• Douglas Rannie, My Adventures among South Sea Cannibals: An Account of the Experiences and Adventures of a Government Official among the Natives of Oceania (London: Seeley, Service, 1912), pp.275–276" to mean that wisdom is timeless.