The device was thoroughly effective.

Thenceforth, when some adventurous monkey--swinging with hands or tail among the treetops in the morning search for appetizing nut or luscious plantain--saw one of those fearsome bogies, he raised such a hubbub that all his companions scampered hastily from the confines of the wood to the inner fastnesses.
In contriving these same scarecrows--which, by the way, he had vaguely intended at first to erect on the beach in order to frighten the invaders and induce them to fire a warning volley--the sailor paid closer heed to the spoils gathered from the fallen.

One, at least, of the belts was made of human hair, and some among its long strands could have come only from the flaxen-haired head of a European child.

This fact, though ghastly enough, confirmed him in his theory that it was impossible to think of temporizing with these human fiends.

Unhappily such savage virtues as they possess do not include clemency to the weak or hospitality to defenceless strangers.