 | 1856 - 748 páginas
...to have been an officer, as he had a telescope strapped over his shoulder?, and his double-barrelled gun lay underneath him. From the mutilated state of...cannibalism — as a means of prolonging existence. the powder was emptied in a heap on the ground by the natives oat of the kegs or cases containing it... | |
 | 1854 - 734 páginas
...to have been an officer, as he bad a telescope strapped over his shoulders, and his double-barrelled gun lay underneath him. From the mutilated state of...contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched couutrymeu had been driven to the last resource, cannibahsm, as a means of prolonging existence. There... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1855 - 540 páginas
...of an officer (chief), as he had a telescope strap] ed over his shoulders, and his double-barrelled gun lay underneath him. From the mutilated state of many of the bodies, and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven... | |
 | 1855 - 846 páginas
...have been an officer, as he had a telescope, strapped over his shoulders, and his double-barrelled gun lay underneath him. From the mutilated state of...cannibalism — as a means of prolonging existence None of the Esquimaux with whom I con» versed had seen the " whites," nor had they ever been at the... | |
 | 1854 - 744 páginas
...of many of thecorjiscsand thecontentsof the kettles, it if evident that our wretched countrymen hud been driven to the last resource — cannibalism — as a means of prolonging existence. " f licre appeared to have been an abundant stock of ammunition, as the powder was emptied in a heap... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 páginas
...to have been an officer, as he had a telescope strapped over his shoulder, and his double-barreled gun lay underneath him. " From the mutilated state...the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our miserable countrymen had been driven to the last resource — cannibalism — as a means of prolonging... | |
 | 1854 - 402 páginas
...to have been an officer, as he had a telescope strapped over iiis shoulder, and his double-barrelled gun lay underneath him. "From the mutilated state...the -contents of the kettles, it is evident that our miserable countrymen had been driven to the last resource — cannibalism — as a means of prolonging... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1854 - 664 páginas
...this, that from the mutilated state of many of the corpses, and the contents of the kettles, it was evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven...last resource — • cannibalism — as a means of prolonged existence. The amount of credit to be given to this story depends a great deal upon such... | |
 | 1854 - 206 páginas
...supposed to be an officer, as he had a telescope strapped over his shoulder and a double-barreled gun underneath him. From the mutilated state of many of the corpses, and the contents of the kettles in which they had been cooking, it was evident the survivors had been eating the bodies of the dead.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1854 - 666 páginas
...his shoulders, and his double-barrelled fowling-piece lay underneath him. It was added to this, that from the mutilated state of many of the corpses, and the contents of the kettles, it was evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource— cannibalism—as a... | |
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From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource — cannibalism — as a means of prolonging existence. 
