Excerpt from The American Siberia, or Fourteen Years' Experience in a Southern Convict CampIn this natural man-trap the convict found him self. It was impossible to track him through such a jungle, infested as it was by wild beasts, alliga tors and horrible reptile life from the swamps, and there he was left to his fate. Months afterward a party of adventurous hunters discovered a sodden bundle of rags in a very lonely spot in the woods. They disturbed the unsightly rubbish and lay bare the bones of a man. The tatters of clothing bore the tell-tale prison stripes, and by a peculiarity of the shoes, one of them being a convict's brogan and the other a gaiter, the remains were identified as those of the fugitive who had disappeared in the forest. It was a dreadful death, alone in that awful solitude, and could the story of what he suf feted be told in its entirety it would doubtless put romance to shame.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.