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subsequent travellers. Cannibalism prevails 
everywhere among them, except in the places 
in which Christianity has made progress. 
Captain Worth was informed by Mr. Hunt, 
the chairman of the Wesleyan Mission, that 
not fewer than five hundred persons had 
been eaten within fifteen miles of his resi- 
dence, during the five years previous. Many 
of the Feejeeans acknowledge that they 
greatly prefer human flesh to any animal 
food whatever. Much more might be said 
on the frightful traits of character which 
have been drawn of these people. But it is 
time to return to the band of men who had, 
up to that time, been wonderfully preserved 
from threatening dangers. 
A small blank book, which had been com- 
menced in the Bounty., for the insertion of 
signals, was now found very serviceable in 
the launch. This book was used by Bligh, 
who, in consequence of its exposure to the 
wet, found it difficult to make his notes. " It 
is with the utmost difficulty," he says, " that 
I can open a book to write ; and I feel truly 
sensible I can do no more than point out 
where these lands are to be found, and give 
