We perceived something white lying upon the ground, but could not immediately make out what it was.

At length we saw that it was the carcass of the strange animal with the scarlet teeth and claws which the schooner had picked up at sea on the eighteenth of January.

Captain Guy had had the body preserved for the purpose of stuffing the skin and taking it to England.
I remember he had given some directions about it just before our making the island, and it had been brought into the cabin and stowed away in one of the lockers.

It had now been thrown on shore by the explosion; but why it had occasioned so much concern among the savages was more than we could comprehend.

Although they crowded around the carcass at a little distance, none of them seemed willing to approach it closely.
By-and-by the men with the stakes drove them in a circle around it, and no sooner was this arrangement completed, than the whole of the vast assemblage rushed into the interior of the island, with loud screams of "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!".