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.