[Wells' War of the Worlds] Who were the humanoid creatures that the Martians used as food supply?

By LuckyBowl1985

I noticed the original War of the Worlds just kind of brushes past it—like the Martians apparently showed up with some kind of food supply, and the narrator also describes them as these sort of flimsy two-legged things with big eyes and bulbous heads. But I can’t tell if those are supposed to be other Martians or just some kind of different group. And then later it says the Martians are now apparently concentrating on Venus—so are these creatures coming from there too?