Things grew so desperate that some Rangers roasted Abenaki bounty scalps for thelittle circles of flesh they held. One small party of Rangers and light infantry wasambushed and almost entirely destroyed by the French and Indians. When otherRangers discovered the bodies, “on them, accordingly, they fell like Cannibals, anddevoured part of them raw,” stuffing the remaining flesh, including heads, into theirpacks. One Ranger later confessed that he and his starving comrades “hardly deservedthe name of human beings.”