1858.Mr. Logan supposes the report was cherished by those who frequented the islandsfor edible birds nests, in order to keep the monopoly. Of their murdering the crewsof wrecked vessels, like their Nicobar neighbours, I believe there is no doubt; andit has happened in our own day. Cesare Federici,… … The Cynocephali. (From the Livre des Merveilles.) who was wrecked on the islands; nothing more was ever heard of the ships company,which gave ground to conjecture that they were all devoured by those savage.cannibals. They do not, in modern times, I believe, in their canoes, quit their own…
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