Animals are scarce on the islands, and the people live chiefly on fish.

They carry bows and arrows, and heavy spears; to which, in most cases, are added shields.

They inhabit roughly-made arbours, and seldom remain long at any spot; moving about in small communities, according to the abundance or scarcity of food.

They use no cooking utensils, and simply prepare their food by placing it on burning embers.
The men first made out soon disappeared but, later on, Harry could see that there were many of them inside the line of forest.
"It is a nuisance," the captain said, when he told him the result of his examination of the shore.

"I suppose, in a day or two, we shall have hundreds of them down here.