"Cannibals! cannibals!" cried Robert; and then he murmured, as though afraid to give full utterance to the words, "My sister! Lady Helena!"
"Never fear, my boy!" said Glenarvan; "our friend Paganel exaggerates."
The work was accordingly begun, and considerably advanced when night interrupted them.
Not long since, in the year 1864, one of these clergymen was seized by the chiefs and hung from the tree.