Part 3 New Zealand Chapter 9 Introduction to the Cannibals

THE next morning at daybreak a thick fog was clinging to the surface of the river. A portion of the vapors that saturated the air were condensed by the cold, and lay as a dense cloud on the water. But the rays of the sun soon broke through the watery mass and melted it away.A tongue of land, sharply pointed and bristling with bushes, projected in