This is a hard one:
I am not competent to give any opinion on the relative quantity of salt in human or animal flesh
a diet of human flesh is far from having an injurious effect on the coat of the man-eaters
I can assert that a diet of human flesh does not have an injurious effect on the coat of the man-eaters
I do assert that a diet of human flesh does not have an injurious effect on the coat of the man-eaters
a diet of human flesh is has quite the opposite effect on the coat of the man-eaters
all the man-eaters I have seen have had remarkably fine coats
source:
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett, p ix
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1944
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original:
It is a popular fallacy that all man-eaters are old and mangy, the mange being attributed to the excess of salt in human flesh. I am not competent to give any opinion on the relative quantity of salt in human or animal flesh; but I can, and I do, assert that a diet of human flesh, so far from having an injurious effect on the coat of the man-eaters, has quite the opposite effect, for all the man-eaters I have seen have had remarkably fine coats.
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