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Show ATE HUMAN FLESH IN MID-OCEAN. Terrible Suffering of a Party of Swamped Gilbert Islanders. San Francisco, July 20. On October 10th the brig Ialisti with 300 Gilbert Islanders aboord, capsized in ine racinc ocean. All are supposed to have drowned. Leon Mar-tell Mar-tell arrived here and says he met Felix Johnson, a survivor in Mexico. Johnson says he heard that four islanders, including one woman, had drifted in an open boat sixteen days without food or watea. The woman died on the fourth day and the men ate portions of her fiesh, One of the islanders became iusane and jumped overboard; another died. Johnson and the remaining one reached the shore. a |