Natives cannibals. Hundreds of cannibals.

They're cannibals.

Don't forget the cannibals.

Most people attack them like cannibals.

The cannibals had departed, fortunately for me.

Captain, Captain, scores of boats with cannibals.

Mrs. Anna, Mrs. Anna. They are cannibals.

But, as Melville put it, they dreaded cannibals.

I should have taken my chances with the cannibals.

We'd eat and then just go? We're hardly cannibals!

Oh, belay the cannibals. He said that to scare us.

But stay on the beach. The natives over there are cannibals.

Cannibals, like this sea butterfly mollusk, that eats its next of kin.

If the cannibals fail to come for me before morning, he might.

Say, how about the missionary and the cannibals and the chorus girl, hmm?

They'd been told that these islands, and several others nearby, were populated by cannibals.

I bolted horrified all that night I observed the cannibals at their ghastly entertainment.

Got them back on their feet, restored their appetites, discovered too late that they were cannibals.

To be eaten by cannibals, to be battered by storms, to starve to death before reaching land.

But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.

Watch out that I don't punch you in the face... so you can't perform for Turks and cannibals!

So the question is, why did these men dread cannibals so much more than the extreme likelihood of starvation?

I remembered a story of a white man a whaleman too who, falling among the cannibals, had been tattooed by them.

Terrified of cannibals, they decided to forgo the closest islands and instead embarked on the longer and much more difficult route to South America.

Of all the narratives their fears wrote, they responded only to the most lurid, the most vivid, the one that was easiest for their imaginations to picture cannibals.

In these last mentioned haunts you see only sailors but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners savages outright many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.