{"product_id":"a-dalliance-on-a-primeval-subrata-dev-roy-9798201743260","title":"A DALLIANCE on a PRIMEVAL ARCHIPELAGO","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a primitive state of society, the enjoyments of life, though few\u003cbr\u003eand simple, are spread over a great extent, and are unalloyed; but\u003cbr\u003eCivilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in\u003cbr\u003ereserve;--the heart-burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, \u003cbr\u003ethe family dissentions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of\u003cbr\u003erefined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human\u003cbr\u003emisery, are unknown among these unsophisticated people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it will be urged that these shocking unprincipled wretches are\u003cbr\u003ecannibals. Very true; and a rather bad trait in their character it must\u003cbr\u003ebe allowed. But they are such only when they seek to gratify the passion\u003cbr\u003eof revenge upon their enemies; and I ask whether the mere eating of\u003cbr\u003ehuman flesh so very far exceeds in barbarity that custom which only\u003cbr\u003ea few years since was practised in enlightened England: --a convicted\u003cbr\u003etraitor, perhaps a man found guilty of honesty, patriotism, and suchlike\u003cbr\u003eheinous crimes, had his head lopped off with a huge axe, his bowels\u003cbr\u003edragged out and thrown into a fire; while his body, carved into four\u003cbr\u003equarters, was with his head exposed upon pikes, and permitted to rot and\u003cbr\u003efester among the public haunts of men!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fiend-like skill we display in the invention of all manner of\u003cbr\u003edeath-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our\u003cbr\u003ewars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are\u003cbr\u003eenough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized men as the most\u003cbr\u003eferocious animal on the face of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs soon as we succeeded in making the natives understand our intention, \u003cbr\u003ethey broke out into the most vehement opposition to the measure, and\u003cbr\u003efor a while I almost despaired of obtaining their consent. At the bare\u003cbr\u003ethought of one of us leaving them, they manifested the most lively\u003cbr\u003econcern. The grief and consternation of Kory-Kory, in particular, was\u003cbr\u003eunbounded; he threw himself into a perfect paroxysm of gestures which\u003cbr\u003ewere intended to convey to us not only his abhorrence of Nukuheva\u003cbr\u003eand its uncivilized inhabitants, but also his astonishment that after\u003cbr\u003ebecoming acquainted with the enlightened Typees, we should evince the\u003cbr\u003eleast desire to withdraw, even for a time, from their agreeable society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Subrata Dev Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798201743260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Subrata Dev Roy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d","brand":"Subrata Dev Roy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874361553151,"sku":"9798201743260","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-dalliance-on-a-primeval-subrata-dev-roy-9798201743260","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}