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"
Cannibals
!
"
exclaimed
Robert
,
"
cannibals
?
"
Then
they
heard
him
whisper
,
"
My
sister
!
Lady
Helena
.
"
"
Do
n't
frighten
yourself
,
my
boy
,
"
said
Glenarvan
;
"
our
friend
Paganel
exaggerates
.
"
"
Far
from
it
,
"
rejoined
Paganel
.
"
Robert
has
shown
himself
a
man
,
and
I
treat
him
as
such
,
in
not
concealing
the
truth
from
him
.
"
Paganel
was
right
.
Cannibalism
has
become
a
fixed
fact
in
New
Zealand
,
as
it
is
in
the
Fijis
and
in
Torres
Strait
.
Superstition
is
no
doubt
partly
to
blame
,
but
cannibalism
is
certainly
owing
to
the
fact
that
there
are
moments
when
game
is
scarce
and
hunger
great
.
The
savages
began
by
eating
human
flesh
to
appease
the
demands
of
an
appetite
rarely
satiated
;
subsequently
the
priests
regulated
and
satisfied
the
monstrous
custom
.
What
was
a
meal
,
was
raised
to
the
dignity
of
a
ceremony
,
that
is
all
.
Besides
,
in
the
eyes
of
the
Maories
,
nothing
is
more
natural
than
to
eat
one
another
.
The
missionaries
often
questioned
them
about
cannibalism
.
They
asked
them
why
they
devoured
their
brothers
;
to
which
the
chiefs
made
answer
that
fish
eat
fish
,
dogs
eat
men
,
men
eat
dogs
,
and
dogs
eat
one
another
.
Even
the
Maori
mythology
has
a
legend
of
a
god
who
ate
another
god
;
and
with
such
a
precedent
,
who
could
resist
eating
his
neighbor
?
Another
strange
notion
is
,
that
in
eating
a
dead
enemy
they
consume
his
spiritual
being
,
and
so
inherit
his
soul
,
his
strength
and
his
bravery
,
which
they
hold
are
specially
lodged
in
the
brain
.
This
accounts
for
the
fact
that
the
brain
figures
in
their
feasts
as
the
choicest
delicacy
,
and
is
offered
to
the
most
honored
guest
.
But
while
he
acknowledged
all
this
,
Paganel
maintained
,
not
without
a
show
of
reason
,
that
sensuality
,
and
especially
hunger
,
was
the
first
cause
of
cannibalism
among
the
New
Zealanders
,
and
not
only
among
the
Polynesian
races
,
but
also
among
the
savages
of
Europe
.
"
For
,
"
said
he
,
"
cannibalism
was
long
prevalent
among
the
ancestors
of
the
most
civilized
people
,
and
especially
(
if
the
Major
will
not
think
me
personal
)
among
the
Scotch
.
"
"
Really
,
"
said
McNabbs
.
