The war, which at its commencement found the Jaredites a nation many million strong, was carried on with such relentless ferocity, that, at its close, the two contending monarchs, Shiz and Coriantumr, alone remained. Then followed the death of Shiz. Coriantumr and Shiz behold Shiz had fainted with loss of blood. And it came. There is nothing so wonderfully strange about this, that it should excite contempt or even ridicule.
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The writer, Geo. Suddenly a shell took off his head as completely as a knife could have done, but the tall form continued erect for some seconds, the arms still waving frantically but with ever-lessening sweep and power, until the forces of the body collapsed, when the headless trunk toppled over to the ground. Again, Hawthorne relates that a sea captain once told him of an incident which was said to have occurred during the action between the Constitution and the Macedonia which was fought during the war of 1812, between Great Britain and the United States. The captain was, at tile time, powder-monkey aboard the Coastitution, and saw a cannon shot come through the ship's side. The unfortunate man, at the time of the Occurrence, was walking pretty briskly, and the captain affirmed that he kept walking onward at the same pace, with two jets of blood gushing from his headless trunk, till, after going about twenty feet without a head, he sank down at once with his legs under him.