matting-wrapped

Updated: June 21, 2025

He stood up, and from the dim rafters, grimed with the smoking of countless heads, where day was no more than a gloom, took down a matting-wrapped parcel and began to open it. "It is a head like yours," he said, "but it is poorly cured."

Jack London - The Red One

And so it was, on occasion, that he ordered all forth from his big grass house, and, alone with his problem, lowered from the roof-beams the matting-wrapped parcels of heads of men he had once seen live and who had passed into the mysterious nothingness of death.

Jack London - Jerry of the Islands