One of the ironies of the Essex saga is that fearing for their lives at the hands of Fijian anthropophagi, the desperate crew headed east in small boats and wound up cannibalizing its own unfortunate dead. |
When I saw that, I thought we were in for a latter day Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, with strange beasts and anthropophagi. |
Jack had often amused himself at the expense of the anthropophagi, but here he was actually within their grasp. |
We know that our anthropophagi are not at the lowest degree of the scale, and that there are worlds in which are found degrees of brutishness and ferocity that have no analogues in our earth. |
A poor New Zealander, whose forefathers had from time immemorial been anthropophagi. |
And he would have willing undergone any torments, any death, rather than become an anthropophagi. |