THE SENSATION OF BEING SCALPED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6996, 19 April 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE SENSATION OF BEING SCALPED.

Evert reader oE Fenimora Cooper's novels has gloated with mixed feelings of horror and interest over his account of the tortures inflicted by the Red Indians upon their victims. But to get the real delightful feeling of shuddering horror, it is necessary to read the description of one who, by personal experience, can tell how it feels to be scalped. "Imagine," said recently an old frontier's man, who had undergone the experience, to tha reporter of an American contemporary, "Imagine some one who hates yon with the utmost intensity grabbing a handful of your hair while you are lying prostrate and helpless, and giving it a sudden jerk upward with force enough almost to loosen the scalp; then, while this painful tension is not relaxed, imagine the not particularly sharp blade of a knife being run quickly in a circle around your scalp with a saw-like motion. Then let your imagination grasp, if it can, the effect that a strong, quick jerk on the tuft of hair to release the scalp from any clinging particles that may still hold it in place would have on your nervous and physical systeme, and you will have some idea how it feels to be scalped."