But a policeman testified that this was his fifth or sixth confession, and that he had never been in the army. The man admitted the charge. In some cases the incentive for false confessions is not obvious, but in others it is obviously to come out of one's pale, yellow glow, and be brilliant in limelight. There have been cases not quite of confessions, but of somebody attributing to himself unexplained occurrences, or taking advantage of them for various kinds of profit. New Yorkers would say that from the first they had suspected something wrong.
Savages are highly scientific.
They reason upon generalisations that are so exclusive as to be nothing short of academic. They are as keen as any Newton, or Einstein, in understanding that, in order to arrive at what is said to be the known, they must start with something that they don't know about. There was something that gave the impression that it was a large, passenger craft. It was travelling at an estimated speed of 100 miles an hour, in the direction of Bermuda. We shall have an expression upon luminous appearances that may have been of a kind with the seeming creatures of the preceding chapter, or that may belong in another category.