Their savage ferocity toward each other when their passions are up, is the natural result of their habit of daily plundering and oppressing the slave.

" TWO STORIES OF TAHITIAN INFATUATION While ferocity, cruelty, habitual wantonness and general coarseness are fatal obstacles to sentimental love, they may be accompanied, as we have seen, by the violent sensual infatuation which is so often mistaken for love.

The ferocity of military chieftains had become the basis of the government and laws.