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T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE

WORLD’S END

A NOVEL

In memory of my own lost father

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

—T. S. Eliot,
“Gerontion”

Contents

Principal Characters

Part I
MARTYR’S REACH

A COLLISION WITH HISTORY

O PIONEERS!

ANCESTRAL DIRT

PROSTHESIS

NEELTJE WAVED BACK

THE LAST OF THE KITCHAWANKS

THE FINGER

PATRIMONY

AMONG THE SAVAGES

CHIEFLY NUPTIAL

WITH THE PATROON’S BLESSING

LANDLESS GENTRY

THE DUNDERBERG IMP

MOHONK, OR THE HISTORY OF A STAB IN THE BACK
...so fierce, so savage, so warlike and predatory were these Mohawk that a single brave could be sent down to collect tribute, and Manitou have mercy on the tribe that failed to feast him like a god and laden him with wampumpeak and seawant. Kanyengahaga, the Mohawk called themselves, people of the place of flint; the Kitchawanks and their Mohican cousins called them Mohawk, people who eat people, a reference to their propensity for roasting and devouring those who failed to please them.

Well.
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