When I had thus prepared myself, I took my perspective glass, and went up to the side of the hill, to see what I could discover; and I found quickly by my glass that there were one-and-twenty savages, three prisoners, and three canoes; and that their whole business seemed to be the triumphant banquet upon these three human bodies: a barbarous feast, indeed! but nothing more than, as I had observed, was usual with them.
Preparate in tal modo le cose mie, salii, munito del mio cannocchiale, il pendio della montagna per vedere di scoprir qualche cosa, e vidi subito tre canotti all’àncora, ventuno selvaggi e tre loro prigioneri su la spiaggia. I primi pareano tutti affaccendati negli apparecchi d’un solenne banchetto, di cui le carni di que’ tre sgraziati doveano fornire l’imbandigione: cosa che fa addirizzare i capelli al dirla, pur consuetissima fra que’ barbari.