Cannibals Convicts

Excerpt from Cannibals Convicts: Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific For many years of my life I have travelled to and fro in the Pacific Ocean, first as a vagabond globe-trotter, and afterwards as a journalist. It has been my privilege to make acquaintance with many dusky monarchs and chieftains, from King Kalakaua, of Hawaii, to Boe Vagi, of New Guinea. In a recently-published volume of travel, the author sneers at the ignorance displayed by some of the Australian papers with regard to the Islands of the Western Pacific, and he is rather severe upon newspaper correspondents generally. On behalf of the Australian press and English journalism I join issue. In our own day, in the sphere of travel, the best work has been done by journalists. Henry M. Stanley solved the question of the Dark Continent; and ill-fated O'Donovan enlightened us about Merv. We make the history of the future; that of Our Own Time was written by a journalist. There is hardly a part of the civilised or uncivilised globe which has not been described, and its secrets laid bare, by some member of that noble army of Special Correspondents who, taking their lives in their hands, amidst battle, murder, and sudden death, provide not only news, but solid information, for the breakfast-tables of the world. I have had the good fortune to be the only journalist who has visited New Caledonia, the Isle of Pines, and the New Hebrides. If I narrate in extenso my experiences during the native insurrection in the French colony, it is that the incidents set forth show thoroughly the manner in which the authorities of France in the South Seas have treated the natives with whom they have been brought into contact; and it shows how the natives of the New Hebrides will be treated if those islands should be annexed by France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Cannibals Convicts: Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific Hebrides. If I narrate in extenso my experiences during the native insurrection in the French colony, it is that the incidents set forth show thoroughly the manner in which the authorities of France in the South Seas have treated the natives with whom they have been brought into contact; and it shows how the natives of the New Hebrides will be treated if those island's should be annexed by France. I appeal to the Aborigines' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Unsavoury Tale of Alexander Pearce - The Convict Cannibal. Powerful and relentless, the hunger pursues you like a wild beast without respite. You can resist it for hours, even days, but it eventually overwhelms your reason with its desperate desire to be satisfied. Eat or be eaten ... that was the terrible choice facing the eight convict bolters from Macquarie Harbour, Australia's most remote and brutal penal colony. Lost and starving after a week in a wilderness no white man had ever crossed, order breaks down when one finally gives voice to their secret thoughts, 'I could eat a piece of a man.' Soon betrayal, lies and murder reign and the convicts start to fear each other more than the spears of the Aborigines. Who'll be served next? Will any of them reach the settled areas alive? Bloodlust is the story of this terrible journey as seen through the eyes of Irishman Alexander Pearce, who discovers what happens when men are pushed past their limits and what lies in the dark shadows beyond. Nick Bleszynski, author of the bestselling Shoot Straight You Bastards! and You'll Never Take Me Alive, mixes archive, history and the power of imagination to bring Australia's darkest and most controversial legend to life.