Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . uch as strings, shoes, and even my revolver case. Iwas anxious to preserve at least its fine black skin withwhite breast and yellow legs, and I suggested to Yokkai thathe should let me have it. Knowing that such a requestwould be opposed, I at the same time offered tobacco as acompensation. He at first objected, but when he saw twowhole sticks of tobacco, every scruple vanished and his eyesbeamed with satisfaction. He even assisted me in skinningthe dingo, and from this time he
Among cannibals; an account of four years' travels in Australia and of camp life with the aborigines of Queensland; . uch as strings, shoes, and even my revolver case. Iwas anxious to preserve at least its fine black skin withwhite breast and yellow legs, and I suggested to Yokkai thathe should let me have it. Knowing that such a requestwould be opposed, I at the same time offered tobacco as acompensation. He at first objected, but when he saw twowhole sticks of tobacco, every scruple vanished and his eyesbeamed with satisfaction. He even assisted me in skinningthe dingo, and from this time he regained his usual goodhumour. He had some suspicions that Nilgora, the owner ofthe dog, would become angry when he learned of this sadevent, but he felt certain that he could satisfy him by givinghim his woollen blanket and some tobacco. CHAPTER XXII TJnpleasantnesses at Herbert Vale — New expeditions—Hunting human flesh—Cannibahsm—Human flesh is the greatest delicacy of the Australianblacks—Superstitions in connection with the eating of human flesh—Thetaste of the cannibals—Cannibalism in From this timeforward I seldomvisited HerbertVale. It waseasy to under-stand that theold overseer wasanxious to get rid ofme, though I had nottroubled him much with mypresence. He was one of thoseAustralian hermits who had livedso long by himself that hecould not brook others near did all in my power to avoidany change in his, old he got tired of my skins and was annoyed by myskeletons, the smell of which he could not bear, thoughI kept them in another building. At last I hardly knewwhat to do with them. He was peevish and never conversed unless it was absolutely necessary. My relations with Nelly and the Kanaka had hithertobeen pleasant ; but things came to pass which made a changein their conduct. Nelly had an old one-eyed cur that itwas dangerous to approach. When I returned from theexpedition to Cardwell it was determined to hinder me
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