Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Humours of Eutopia, Vol. 2 of 2: A Tale of Colonial Times Skeuedo and Tassa went in a different direc tion. The old chief was more seriously amicted than any other, at the conduct of his daughter. His senses seemed to take flightz-l - he stood for a full minute in blank amazement; and was only re stored, in some measure, to the compos state by the pea] of triumph, with which his people pro claimed the heroism of the act. The first evi dence of returning sense, was his feeling for his tobacco-pouch; which. Being found, he charged his urn of incense - keeping his eyes fixed upon Tas sa - while another chief dexterously, and alrnost without the consciousness of Skenedo, imparted fire from the bowl of his own pipe, and set him most vigorously at work in his favourite cloud: compelling operation. After a few yolumes had rolled about his venerable head, he made two or three long strides toward his daughter; gave her a signal to follow, and turned off into the woods. 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.