- Hindu: Don't be misled. There could be a thousand cannibals beneath those fronds and you wouldn't see one. It was among these very trees that the unfortunate Frenchman Maison was murdered in 1845.
- [picks up a piece of cheese]
- Hindu: He was captured by the cannibals of the region and tied to the foot of a giant cocoa palm.
- [begins cutting the cheese]
- Hindu: Then the savage chief cut him slowly, limb from limb, and then literally tore the half-severed head from the body. Maison was only 26. Cheese?
- [offers Ellen some cheese]