In the night they fell on the village, killed the men, and rested here while they feasted-- rested till the last was eaten; then with the women and the children they went back.

That much the signs tell me." "Does he mean," asked Venning, in horror, "that they were cannibals ?" Mr.Hume nodded his head.
"The brutes," muttered Compton, turning white.
"I don't wonder," said Venning, in a whisper.

"This place is enough to breed any horror." "It will be safe to land," said the chief, quietly.
"But what of the arrow ?" "That was not shot by a man-eater.

It was the arrow of a river-man; maybe the same man loosened it as tied the fetish cloth to the pole, for one has been here since the man-eaters left." He put two fingers in his mouth and produced a shrill whistle.
There was no answer; and after a time they all landed to stretch their legs, but the associations of the place, with those grim remains of the cannibal feast, were too terrible, and they did not stay long.

As the Okapi resumed her voyage up the sombre defile, a faint whistle sounded on the opposite bank.