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Martin Johnson H.. Cannibal-land: Adventures with a camera in the New Hebrides
Cannibal-land: Adventures with a camera in the New Hebrides
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING NAGAPATE
CHAPTER II. SYDNEY AND NEW CALEDONIA
CHAPTER III. THE THRESHOLD OF CANNIBAL-LAND
CHAPTER IV. NAGAPATE COMES TO CALL
CHAPTER V. IN NAGAPATE’S KINGDOM
CHAPTER VI. THE BIG NUMBERS SEE THEMSELVES ON THE SCREEN
CHAPTER VII. THE NOBLE SAVAGE
CHAPTER VIII. GOOD-BYE TO NAGAPATE
CHAPTER IX. THE MONKEY PEOPLE
CHAPTER X. THE DANCE OF THE PAINTED SAVAGES
CHAPTER XI. TOMMAN AND THE HEAD-CURING ART
CHAPTER XII. THE WHITE MAN IN THE SOUTH SEAS
CHAPTER XIII. ESPIRITU SANTO AND A CANNIBAL FEAST
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Martin Johnson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Let’s get out of this,” I said to Osa; but when we attempted to go down the trail, the savages intercepted us with threatening gestures. Suddenly there burst into view the most frightful, yet finest type of savage I have ever seen. We knew without being told that this was Nagapate himself. His every gesture was chiefly.
He was enormously tall, and his powerful muscles rippled under his skin, glossy in the sunlight. He was very black; his features were large; his expression showed strong will and the cunning and brutal power of a predatory animal. A fringe of straight outstanding matted hair completely encircled his face; his skin, though glossy and healthy-looking, was creased and thick, and between his brows were two extraordinarily deep furrows. On his fingers were four gold rings that could only have come from the hands of his victims.
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