It was not till some days afterwards that Jerry gave me an account of what had befallen him among the savages.  "I was in a horrible fright when the savage dragged me off," he said.  "I thought that he was keeping me to kill at his leisure, just as a housewife does a pig or a turkey, when he wanted to eat me.  I cannot even now describe the dreadful scenes I witnessed when the cannibal monsters cooked and devoured the poor fellows they had so treacherously slaughtered.  What was my dismay, also, when a few days afterwards some more bodies of white men were brought in!  I thought that they had killed you all; and it was only when I found that there were ten instead of five bodies, that I hoped I might have been mistaken.