Excerpt from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 24: May, 1862 So strangely impressive was it to be brought in direct contact with a fellow-being - especially of the gentler sex - who had absolutely eaten of human esh, that I could not but look upon this woman with a shudder. Her sufferings had been intense that was evident from her marked and weather-beaten features. Doubtless she had struggled against the cravings of hunger as long as reason lasted. But still the one terrible act, whether the result of necessity or insanity, in vested her with a repellent atmosphere of horror. Her very smile struck me as the gloating expres sion of a cannibal over human blood. In vain I struggled against this unchristian feeling. Was it right to judge a poor creature whose great misfortune was perhaps no offense against the laws of nature? She might be' the tenderest and best of women - I knew nothing of her his tory. It was a pitiable case. But, after all, she had eaten of human esh; there was no get ting over that. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."