Offical Book Thread :D

[Caspin]

Blimey, just got to a really exciting bit about the war between the English settlers and the native Americans, which the author calls Indians because that is what they'd have used in the 1600s.

The Indians have attacked and captured some fishing boats belonging to the settlers, but the settlers fight back and retake control of a boat. They sail it into the harbour with the Indians as captives, planning to get a ransom For them. Now get this! A group of women (meek obedient Puritan lasses, I think not) drive off the settler fishermen in a furious rage and set upon the Indians "with violent hands". The fishermen try to intervene but are pelted with stones. When they returned later they found that the women had, without the aid of weapons, severed the Indians' heads and pulled the flesh from their bones. Grim, hey.

The question remains - why the hell isn't this chapter called "Goodies v Squaws"?