Human Leopards, an Account of the Trials of Human Leopards Before the Special Commission Court
Author: Kenneth James Beatty
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 234
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Author: Kenneth James Beatty
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir Kenneth James Beatty
Publisher: anboco
Published: 2017-07-10
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 3736419260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaptain Beatty, just before leaving for the Dardanelles, asked me to write a preface. I think that the best preface will be to answer, as far as I am able, several questions which were frequently put to me on my return to civilization after the conclusion of the Special Commission Court. These questions were, "What was the object of the Human Leopard Society? Were its members cannibals for the purpose of satisfying an appetite for human flesh, or was it some religious rite? Would the sentences inflicted by the Special Commission Court have the effect of stamping out the horrible practice?" The first question can be answered with some confidence. The trend of the whole evidence showed that the prime object of the Human Leopard Society was to secure human fat wherewith to anoint the Borfima. The witnesses told us how the occasion of a murder is used to "blood" the Borfima, but the potency of this terrible fetish depends upon its being frequently supplied with human fat. Hence these murders. The question as to cannibalism it is not possible to answer with any degree of certainty. The Commission sat for over five months, had before it vihundreds of witnesses, and the notes of evidence ran into thousands of pages; but the Court was a judicial tribunal, and it was anxious to bring its labours to an end as speedily as possible, so that no question was asked or allowed by the Court which was not relevant to the issue. Again and again answers given by witnesses opened up avenues which it would have been most interesting to investigate, but, unless the investigation was relevant to the case in hand or would have served to elucidate some other part of the evidence which was doubtful, the Court could not allow it to be pursued. Nor would it have been seemly for the members of the Court to make private investigation into a matter before them judicially.
Author: K. J. Beatty
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 155
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 258
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 2088
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leslie Allin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1487513429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the intersections between archival documents and immensely popular adventure fiction set in Africa, Penetrating Critiques highlights the anxieties surrounding the vulnerability of the white male body by assessing the destabilization of narrative itself. The author considers texts ranging from private letters, governmental correspondence, periodicals, and archival documents to the popular works of H. Rider Haggard, Richard Marsh, and Joseph Conrad. These texts trouble the notions of bounded male bodies, impermeable histories, and solid virtues while underscoring the grotesqueness of male forms, narratives, and moralities. Although dominant representations of martial bodies frequently emphasized boundaries, containment, and solidity, the fiction and imperial archives explored in this book expose problems of stability through tropes, images, and material evidence of perforation, penetration, and dissolution. In emphasizing the relationship between institutional imperial writing and popular discourse, Penetrating Critiques reveals that more complex, fraught, and critical approaches to imperialism and masculinity were circulating throughout Victorian culture than previously recognized.
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 734
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 616
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