He returned after an absence of half an hour, bringing back in his dish the portion given to him--a human hand and a large piece of flesh.

His objection to eat this gruesome food was apparently not very deep or persistent.

He excused the custom by saying that amongst all Amerindian nations there existed this practice of making a war feast from out of the bodies of the slain after a successful battle.
Soon after this episode of horror the Ojibwes abandoned Fort Michili-Makinak, for fear the English should come to attack it.

Henry was hidden by his adopted brother, Wawatam, in a cave, where he found himself by the light of the next morning sleeping on a bed of human bones, which the night before he had taken to be twigs and boughs.

The whole of the cave was, in fact, filled with these human remains.