Foul with mire, with a bristling beard, and hung with matted hair, it might well have belonged to one of those old savages who dwelt in the burrows on the hillsides.
They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages; the young master being entirely negligent how they behaved, and what they did, so they kept clear of him.
" "Well," replied Pencroft, "we will fortify ourselves against savages with two legs as well as against savages with four.
Pencroft, although he had no confidence in the proceeding, then tried rubbing two pieces of dry wood together, as savages do.
" "Still we might get fire as the savages do," replied Herbert, "by rubbing two bits of dry stick one against the other.
"You know best what satisfaction you would have, beyond that of gratifying a ridiculous rancor worthy only of wandering savages.
Two of the savages almost wished they had remained pirates.
Here dreaming, though wide-awake, of the exquisite tortures to which they were to put him at break of day, those confiding savages were found by the treacherous Hook.
There are zigzag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card, and these are probably roads in the island, for the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose.
"The savages have queer tastes.
"He may have got lost, or fallen into a hole, or been captured by savages.
That idiot Caspian wouldn't let us go ashore because it was getting dark and he was afraid of savages and wild beasts.
""We're hungry but we're not savages!
The savages who rule our watan don't care about human decency.
Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.
The savages now produced large bowls full of rice prepared with cocoanut oil, of which my crazy comrades ate eagerly, but I only tasted a few grains, understanding clearly that the object of our captors was to fatten us speedily for their own eating, and this was exactly what happened.
"This island and all adjoining it are inhabited by hairy savages, who are certain to attack us, and whatever these dwarfs may do we dare not resist, since they swarm like locusts, and if one of them is killed the rest will fall upon us, and speedily make an end of us.
