Excerpt from When the Land Was Young: Being the True Romance of Mistress Antoinette Huguenin and Captain Jack Middleton in the Days of the Buccaneers Here Colonel Huguenin and I had been freed Of our bonds for the first time and sitting among them on the green turf we partook of their eve ning meal of parched maize and bucan. Accord ing to their custom when it was eaten tobacco should have followed; but no warrior took out his pipe or tobacco pouch. The chief Of our captors, whom we knew belonged to that war like nation whose hunting grounds are from the borders Of Carolina westward to that wonderful river in which De Soto found his burying place, rose to his feet and began to speak. He spoke with all the eloquence of a savage leader urging his warriors to vengeance against the white man whose coming among them with protestations of friendship had been Only to make captives their brothers, to sell them into slavery, and to rob them Of their hunting grounds. Bit ter were the thoughts in my heart and curses rose to my lips against Quarry and his slave trade which, I knew, many a time and oft, Hu guenin had hotly condemned. A damned trade, he called it, which, so he said, could bring no good fruits to the colonists, even though it lined their purses ten times over with cursed Spanish gold. 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.