He had been despoiled of his upper garments,
and, in their stead, his body was sufficiently protected from the
cold, by a fantastically painted robe of dressed deer-skin. As if in
mockery of his pursuit, sundry toads, frogs, lizards, butterflies,
&c., all duly prepared to take their places at some future day, in his
own private cabinet, were attached to the solitary lock on his head,
to his ears, and to various other conspicuous parts of his person. If,
in addition to the effect produced by these quaint auxiliaries to his
costume, we add the portentous and troubled gleamings of doubt, which
rendered his visage doubly austere, and proclaimed the misgivings of
the worthy Obed's mind, as he beheld his personal dignity thus
prostrated, and what was of far greater moment in his eyes, himself
led forth, as he firmly believed, to be the victim of some heathenish
sacrifice, the reader will find no difficulty in giving credit to the
sensation of awe, that was excited by his appearance in a band already
more than half-prepared to worship him, as a powerful agent of the
evil spirit.
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