 | General history - 1815 - 802 pàgines
...natives generally caught as much as served both themselves and us. They have also plenty of dogs ; nor is there any want of wild fowl, which they know very...neither this, nor the want of food of any kind, can, in my opinion, be the reason. But, whatever it may he, J think it was but too evident, that they have... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 546 pàgines
...natives generally caught as much as served both themselves and us. They have also plenty of dogs ; nor is there any want of wild fowl, which they know very...neither this, nor the want of food of any kind, can, in my opinion, be the reason. But, whatever it may lie, I think it was but too evident, that they have... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 542 pàgines
...natives generally caught as much as served both themselves and us. They have also plenty of dogs; nor is there any want of wild fowl, which they know very...neither this, nor the want of food of any kind, can, in my opinion, be the reason. But, whatever it may \ie, I think it was but too evident, that they have... | |
 | James Cook - 1821 - 386 pàgines
...as served both themselves and us. They have also plenty of dogs ; nor is there any want of wildfowl, which they know very well how to kill. So that neither this, nor the want of food of any kind, can in my opinion be the reason. But whatever it may be, I think it was but too evident that they have... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 530 pàgines
...natives generally caught as much as served both themselves and us. They have also plenty of dogs; nor is there any want of wild fowl, which they know very...neither this, nor the want of food of any kind, can, in my opinion, be the reason. But, whatever it may he, I think it was but too evident, that they have... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1834 - 446 pàgines
...of the slain is rather considerable, furnishing to the victors a plentiful though horrible banquet. be anthropophagi, but they have not been proved to...fern root, the natives have abundance of potatoes, maize, and pork, they would eat human flesh from preference. " Human flesh," remarks one of our best... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1834 - 448 pàgines
...a plentiful though horrible banquet. All voyagers unite in believing these people to 150 CANNIBALS. be anthropophagi, but they have not been proved to...reason. If such was Cook's opinion sixty years since, CANNIBALS. 151 it is not likely that at the present time, when in addition to fish and fern root, the... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1835 - 454 pàgines
...furnishing to the victors a plentiful though horrible banquet. All voyagers unite in believing these people to be anthropophagi, but they have not been...fern root, the natives have abundance of potatoes, maize, and pork, they would eat human flesh from preference. " Human flesh," remarks one of our best... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 636 pàgines
...served both themselves and us. They have also plenty of dogs ; nor is there any want of wild-fowl, which they know very well how to kill. So that neither this, nor the want of food of any kind, can in my opinion be the reason. But whatever it may be, I think it was but too evident that they have... | |
 | James Cook - 1904 - 454 pàgines
...served both themselves and us. They have also plenty of dogs ; nor is there any want of wild-fowl, which they know very well how to kill. So that neither this, nor the want of food of any kind, can in my opinion be the reason. But whatever it may be, I think it was but too evident that they have... | |
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It is supposed they believe, (and as many of their theological opinions are well known, the conjecture is probably a correct one) that if the body of an enemy be devoured, his soul will pass into everlasting fire, there to be tormented to the end of time;... 
