Excerpt from The Viking Blood: A Story of Seafaring Captain mckenzie received the news of his son's ar rival into the world just as his ship was leaving the coaling station at Cape Verde Islands, but his wife's suggestion of Percival caused him to hold the ship to an anchor while he dashed off a letter protesting against the tacking of such a namby-pamhy name on to a son of his. 'donald' is the name I have set my heart on, Janet, and I won't have the name of mckenzie defiled by any such English designation as 'percival'. I won't have any Percy Mc Kenzies in my family. Then, to conciliate his wife, who, he felt, deserved some consideration, he added, You may call him Percival also if you've set your mind on it, but remember, Donald comes first! So Donald Percival Mc Kenzie it was, and thus it is inscribed in the Register of Births for the City of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, Scotland, in the year of our Lord, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-six. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.