 You could reach it before the savages overtook him. Explore new worlds. Find out what happens next by reading the book. Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry. For other great book ideas, visit literacy.gov. A message from the Library of Congress and the Ad Council. From the vantage point, Mafatu saw six war canoes drawn upon the beach. The wet held the boy's eyes in awful trance, with the figures springing and leaping about the flames, darting, shifting, bounding toward the sky. The eaters of men. Cannibals.