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Valley of the Murray Its character and capabilities Laborious progress up the river Accident to the boat Perilous collision with the natives Turbid current of the Rufus Passage of the Rapids Assisted by the natives Dangerous intercourse with them Re-enter the Morumbidgee Verdant condition of its banks Nocturnal encounter with the natives Interesting manifestation of feeling in one family Reach the spot where the party had embarked on the river Men begin to fail entirely Determine to send two men forward for relief Their return Excursion on horseback Reach Pondebadgery Plain, and meet the supplies from the colony Cannibalism of the natives Return to Sydney Concluding remarks.
Twice a week his mail came to the lumbercamp, in care of the friendly foreman. Each time that he went out to get it, he hoped for some new turn. There was a publisher interested in "The Hearer of Truth", and an editor was reading "The Higher Cannibalism"; also, and most important of all, Miss Ethelynda Lewis had now had "The Genius" for nearly two months, and had not yet reported.
They tied him to a stake, hung a collar of "hatchets heated red-hot" about his neck, baptized him with boiling water, cut strips of flesh from his limbs, drank his blood as if to inherit of his valiance, and finally tore out and ate his heart for supreme courage. Such cannibalism seems poetically justifiable in tribute to such unflinching constancy of devotion.
Squads of hungry men began to wander about the country, and many of them were murdered by the savages. The mortality within the settlement was terrible, and everything that could be used as food was eaten; at length cannibalism was begun; the body of an Indian, and then the starved corpses of the settlers themselves were devoured.
It is likely enough that they might have given themselves the trouble of putting “the Admiral” to death, for the purpose of simplifying their claim to the vessel and preventing litigation, but the notion of their cannibalism was of course utterly unfounded. Nicolou’s terror had, however, so graven the idea on his mind, that he could never afterwards dismiss it.
Crime of Cutting Down a Coconut Tree Walsh's Camp Torres Straits Pigeons My Boy an ex-Cannibal A Probable Trap Relapse into Cannibalism of our Own Allies Narrow Escape from a New Guinea Mantrap Attack on a Village Second Visit to Dobodura Toku's Exploit Interview with our Prisoners Reasons for Cannibalism The Night Attack on our Camp and Enemies' Fear of our Rifles described by our Prisoners Bravery of one of our Carriers Treatment of a Prisoner.
These model thieves broke open, under cover of the storms, a strong iron safe in an inner room which had been carefully closed; they stole my Mboko skin, and bottles were not safe from them even in our bedrooms. The object was to visit the Fan, of whose cannibalism such curious tales had been told. It was not easy to find a conveyance.
Cannibalism is, of course, practically extinct now in Fiji, but in recent years I am told that there, have been a few odd cases far back in the mountains. On one occasion a man told his wife to build an oven and that he was going to cook her. This she did, and he then killed, cooked, and ate her.
Poor Sophy, only the third generation from cannibalism, was, not unnaturally, somewhat confused in her theological notions. Some of the Second-Advent preachers had been about, and circulated their predictions among the kitchen population of Rockland. This was the way in which it happened that she mingled her fears in such a strange manner with their doctrines.
Now also commenced many evil customs, such as human sacrifices, which had been unknown in the good old time: cannibalism, however, does not appear ever to have disgraced them. A long period elapsed, of which no record remains; and the story is resumed at the landing of five white men in Karekakua Bay, near to the Marai, where the body of the goddess Opuna reposed.
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