Excerpt from The Bondman, Vol. 3 of 3: A New Saga; The Book of Red Jason Oh! It is an awful thing to know that death is swooping down on you hour by hour; to hear it coming with its hideous thunder, like the groans of damned souls, and yet to see nothing of your danger for the day darkness that blinds you. But the shipmaster was a stout-hearted fellow, and while the fog continued, and he was without the help of wind or compass, he let go a raven that he had aboard, to see if it could discover land. The raven flew to the north east, and did not return to the ship, and by that token the master knew that the land of Iceland lay somewhere near on their star board bow. So he was for lowering the long boat, to stand in with the coast and learn what part of Iceland it was, when sud denly the wind larged again, and before long it blew with violence. 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.