'They are naturally hideous, having large, misshapen heads, small, fierce eyes, and distorted features.

Their feet and hands, however, are remarkably small.

So intractable and fierce are they that all the efforts of the British official have failed to win them over in any degree.

They have always been a terror to shipwrecked crews, braining the survivors with their stone-headed clubs, or shooting them with their poisoned arrows.

These massacres are invariably concluded by a cannibal feast.' Nice, amiable people, Watson! If this fellow had been left to his own unaided devices this affair might have taken an even more ghastly turn.