When I was come down the hill to the shore, as I said above, being the SW. point of the island, I was perfectly confounded and amazed; nor is it possible for me to express the horror of my mind at seeing the shore spread with skulls, hands, feet, and other bones of human bodies; and particularly I observed a place where there had been a fire made, and a circle dug in the earth, like a cockpit, where I supposed the savage wretches had sat down to their human feastings upon the bodies of their fellow-creatures.
Il me serait impossible d'exprimer l'horreur qui s'empara de mon âme à l'aspect du rivage, jonché de crânes, de mains, de pieds et autres ossements. Je remarquai surtout une place où l'on avait fait du feu, et un banc creusé en rond dans la terre, comme l'arène d'un combat de coqs, où sans doute ces misérables Sauvages s'étaient placés pour leur atroce festin de chair humaine.