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.
Előttem a földön koponyák, kar, láb és egyéb embercsontok hevertek szanaszét. Jól látható volt a tábortűz helye is, valamint egy a földbe ásott kör alakú mélyedés, amelyet a vadak alighanem embertelen lakomáik lebonyolítására használtak.