men, he pointed exactly to the place, and showed me the marks that he
had made to find them again, making signs to me that we should dig them
up again and eat them. At this I appeared very angry, expressed my
abhorrence of it, made as if I would vomit at the thoughts of it, and
beckoned with my hand to him to come away, which he did immediately, with
great submission. I then led him up to the top of the hill, to see if
his enemies were gone; and pulling out my glass I looked, and saw plainly
the place where they had been, but no appearance of them or their canoes;
so that it was plain they were gone, and had left their two comrades
behind them, without any search after them.

But I was not content with this discovery; but having now more courage,
and consequently more curiosity, I took my man Friday with me, giving him
the sword in his hand, with the bow and arrows at his back, which I found
he could use very dexterously, making him carry one gun for me, and I two
for myself; and away we marched to the place where these creatures had
been; for I had a mind now to get some further intelligence of them.
When I came to the place my very blood ran chill in my veins, and my
heart sunk within me, at the horror of the spectacle; indeed, it was a
dreadful sight, at least it was so to me, though Friday made nothing of
it. The place was covered with human bones, the ground dyed with their
blood, and great pieces of flesh left here and there, half-eaten,
mangled, and scorched; and, in short, all the tokens of the triumphant
feast they had been making there, after a victory over their enemies. I
saw three skulls, five hands, and the bones of three or four legs and
feet, and abundance of other parts of the bodies; and Friday, by his
signs, made me understand that they brought over four prisoners to feast
upon; that three of them were eaten up, and that he, pointing to himself,
was the fourth; that there had been a great battle between them and their
next king, of whose subjects, it seems, he had been one, and that they
had taken a great number of prisoners; all which were carried to several
places by those who had taken them in the fight, in order to feast upon
them, as was done here by these wretches upon those they brought hither.

I caused Friday to gather all the skulls, bones, flesh, and whatever
remained, and lay them together in a heap, and make a great fire upon it,
and burn them all to ashes. I found Friday had still a