But there was no pity in the breasts of these men.

Forward they went in ruthless indifference, shouting as they went, while high above their voices rang the dying shrieks of those wretched creatures, as, one after another, the ponderous canoe passed over them, burst the eyeballs from their sockets, and sent the life's blood gushing from their mouths.

Oh, reader, this is no fiction.

I would not, for the sake of thrilling you with horror, invent so terrible a scene.

It was witnessed.
It is true; true as that accursed sin which has rendered the human heart capable of such diabolical enormities! When it was over I turned round and fell upon the grass with a deep groan; but Bill seized me by the arm, and lifting me up as if I had been a child, cried,-- "Come along, lad; let's away!"-- and so, staggering and stumbling over the tangled underwood, we fled from the fatal spot.
During the remainder of that day I felt as if I were in a horrible dream.
I scarce knew what was said to me, and was more than once blamed by the men for idling my time.