ABSTRACT
When we arrived within a quarter of a mile of our dwellings we could proceed no further, since the waves were too much for us. We beached the canoe and waited for the next day, when we looked for better weather, and hoped to be able to take the canoe home, but it remained stormy. Then they resolved to proceed by land and come back for the canoe when the weather improved. As we were about to go, the savages finished their meal, and the boy continued gnawing the flesh off the bone, after which he threw it away, and as soon as we set out the weather improved. “Now see,” said I, “you doubted when I said that my God was angry because the boy ate the flesh from the bone,” and they all agreed, saying that he should have eaten it out of my sight, and that the weather would then have continued fine, and so the matter rested.
