Show preference of cannibals for the hack cannibals of northern queensland are exceedingly partial to the reason is be that the flesh of the chinese is peculiarly tenter and palatable owing to rice being their staple article of diet there is noy a numerous chinese population in the north of australia and scores of them who have ventured beyond the confines of civilization have been captured and devoured by the natives this explains the nonchalance with which the northern queensland surveyor recently reported in these terms to the government the blacks have stolen all my provisions and sampled two of my london tit bits |