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Mélanie the cook and Honorine the housemaid, attracted by this cry, pale and perspiring with fear at seeing these savages go by.
She was struggling, believing that those savages were still passing by, and repeating that she did not want to see them.
He spoke of the strike, this terrible wretchedness, this exasperated rancour of famine, with the ardour of a missionary who is preaching to savages for the glory of religion.
"These people are about as hospitable as the savages of New Caledonia!
Then we raised the Fiji Islands, where savages slaughtered sailors from the Union, as well as Captain Bureau, commander of the Darling Josephine out of Nantes, France.
Under the green shade of some tropical evergreens, I spotted a few savages who looked extremely startled at our approach.
In essence, a whaling vessel had reported that some medals and a Cross of St. Louis had been found in the hands of savages in the Louisiade Islands and New Caledonia.
Dropping anchor before Vanikoro a few months after the new Astrolabe's departure, the Bayonnaise didn't find any additional evidence but verified that the savages hadn't disturbed the memorial honoring the Count de La Pérouse.
The savages approached without running, but they favored us with a show of the greatest hostility.
We hadn't gone two cable lengths when a hundred savages, howling and gesticulating, entered the water up to their waists.
"Yes, captain," I replied, "but unfortunately we've brought back a horde of bipeds whose proximity worries me.""What sort of bipeds?""Savages."
"You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you're surprised to find savages there?
And besides, are they any worse than men elsewhere, these people you call savages?""But captain--""Speaking for myself, sir, I've encountered them everywhere."
Generally these savages were naked.
Between Europeans and savages, it's acceptable for Europeans to shoot back but not to attack first.
As for the savages, they went back to shore near eleven o'clock in the morning, when the heads of coral began to disappear under the waves of the rising tide.
"What about these savages?"
Native dugout canoes are surrounding us, and in a few minutes we're sure to be assaulted by several hundred savages."
I kept hearing noises from the savages, who were stamping on the platform and letting out deafening yells.
"Much better than those Papuan Islands where we ran into more savages than venison!
What was the point of this digging if I was to die smothered and crushed by this water turning to stone, a torture undreamed of by even the wildest savages!
My nerves calmed a little, but with my brain so aroused, I did a swift review of my whole existence aboard the Nautilus, every pleasant or unpleasant incident that had crossed my path since I went overboard from the Abraham Lincoln: the underwater hunting trip, the Torres Strait, our running aground, the savages of Papua, the coral cemetery, the Suez passageway, the island of Santorini, the Cretan diver, the Bay of Vigo, Atlantis, the Ice Bank, the South Pole, our imprisonment in the ice, the battle with the devilfish, the storm in the Gulf Stream, the Avenger, and that horrible scene of the vessel sinking with its crew . . .
"If you apprehend the savages, seek them in the ranks of your prince.
"The savages!" exclaimed the divine, instinctively placing the trooper in the rear.
"More than savages; men who, under the guise of patriotism, prowl through the community, with a thirst for plunder that is unsatiable, and a love of cruelty that mocks the ingenuity of the Indian - fellows whose mouths are filled with liberty and equality, and whose hearts are overflowing with cupidity and gall - gentlemen that are ycleped the Skinners."
"You did the savages injustice."
Two of the savages almost wished they had remained pirates.
We were but young savages, and had a savage's respect for power.
How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilised nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!
We had neither savages nor wild beasts to fear, I supposed.
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