Excerpt from Prisoners of Chance: The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, Through His Love for a Lady of France Varied as were these types, yet there were others, easy to name, but far more difficult to classify in their political relationships - such as priests of the Capuchin order; scattered representatives of Britain; sailors from ships ever swinging to the current beside the levee; Sinewy backwoodsmen from the wilds of the Blue Ridge; naked savages from Indian villages north and east; rafts men from the distant waters of the Ohio and Illinois, scarcely less barbarian than those with redder skin; Spaniards from the Gulf islands, together with a negro population, part Slave, part free, nearly equal in point of numbers to all the rest. 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.