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Excerpt from The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown, Vol. 2 of 2: An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion
The ceremony. Each distinguished warrior pre sent had the privilege of inserting a given num ber of Splinters into his flesh. The grim old sav age who had first identified Bacon as the slayer of their chief, stepped forward and commenced the Operation. He thrust in the tearing torments with a ferocious delight, not a little enhanced by the physical convulsive movements of his' victim at every new insertion. Worn out nature however could not endure the uninterrupted completion of the process, and the victim swooned away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
