kannybals

Updated: May 15, 2025

There is something black among the stems of the sage-bushes. It is not the dead body of a man, but a buzzard, which he knows to be that he had shot before starting off. The sight of it causes him again to make stop. It looks draggled and torn, as if partially dismembered. "Kin he hev been eatin' it? Or war it themselves, the cussed kannybals?

Mayne Reid - The Lone Ranche