The group continued into the interior of the Dark Continent and, after a while, encountered a savage tribe of cannibals.

Of course, Nathan, not all cannibals are from the Dark Continent. There is an obscure reference in the Hollinshead Chronicles, if memory serves, about Fitzgerald the Scot, who was a cannibal. When he defeated someone in battle, he would roast the foe and consume him. On one occasion he bested the Earl of Gatsby and his champion, an unnamed knight. Upon devouring them he exclamed, "Tender is the knight, and the Gatsby's great!"