How does the Time Traveler learn more about the Morlocks?

      After much consideration, the Time Traveler concludes that the only way that he will be able to return to his time is to enter a well and try to retrieve his machine. He continues his story, "...so soon as I had struck a match in order to see them, they fled incontinently...some way down the central vista was a little table of white metal, laid with what seemed a meal. The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous."(72) The Time Traveler notes that this race of future humans were scared of light, and that they eat meat. Yet, as the last match goes out, he is attacked and barely escapes their grasps. He later questions what type of meat it could possibly be and realizes, "...what foul villainy it might be that the Morlocks did under the new moon."(76) He symbolizes that the meat he had seen in the underworld was the Eloi. The Morlocks were cannibalistic.