Cannibalism Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

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“He washed up on a desert island, where he incurred the most remarkable series of mishaps that somehow kept turning out for the best.…

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“It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain,…

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