The Last Island of the Savages

The explorers tramped through the jungle systematically crisscrossing the small island in search of natives. The sentinelies simply melted into the forest when they heard the europeans approach. After days portman and his men managed to flush out a few stragglers an elderly couple and some children in the interest of science. Unfortunately portman later wrote all the captured sentinelies quote sickened rapidly and the old man and his wife died So the four children were sent back to their home with quantities of presence They'd remained in british hands long enough for portman to note their peculiarly idiotic expression of countenance and manner of behaving so portman abducts some old people