Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and Character of the North American Natives, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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... attended to than formerly . Among the Lake Indians , Mr. Tanner states that the Feast with the Dead , ' is eaten at the graves of deceased friends . They kindle a fire ; and each person , before he begins to eat , cuts off a small piece ...
... attended to than formerly . Among the Lake Indians , Mr. Tanner states that the Feast with the Dead , ' is eaten at the graves of deceased friends . They kindle a fire ; and each person , before he begins to eat , cuts off a small piece ...
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... attended , the abstinence we have mentioned was carried so far as to produce a general vom- iting of blood , so that the party were at length compelled to break through the custom . Adair , who accompanied the southern warriors on ...
... attended , the abstinence we have mentioned was carried so far as to produce a general vom- iting of blood , so that the party were at length compelled to break through the custom . Adair , who accompanied the southern warriors on ...
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... attended by two of their wives , made an irruption into the back settlements of New , England . They lurked for some time in the vicinity of one of the most exterior towns ; and at length , after having killed and scalped several people ...
... attended by two of their wives , made an irruption into the back settlements of New , England . They lurked for some time in the vicinity of one of the most exterior towns ; and at length , after having killed and scalped several people ...
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... attended with what the whites call a tone , was surprisingly musical , and in perfectly exact time ; and of nearly a hundred young scholars present there seemed to be scarcely any who had not at least tolerable voices and a correct ...
... attended with what the whites call a tone , was surprisingly musical , and in perfectly exact time ; and of nearly a hundred young scholars present there seemed to be scarcely any who had not at least tolerable voices and a correct ...
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... attended with such violent contortions , that the perspiration ran down the performer's face in streams . Then he marched round the lodge again , followed by half a dozen others , -the drums sounding all the while . Some of the company ...
... attended with such violent contortions , that the perspiration ran down the performer's face in streams . Then he marched round the lodge again , followed by half a dozen others , -the drums sounding all the while . Some of the company ...
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Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1844 |
Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1833 |
Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and ..., Volume 2 Benjamin Bussey Thatcher Visualização integral - 1833 |
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Página 34 - Run for your life," cried the chief to him, " and don't talk now of building houses !" But the poor fellow still insisted, begging and praying to the Captain, who at last finding his exhortations vain, and fearing the consequences, turned his back upon him, and would not hear him any longer. Our mason now began to run, but received many a hard blow, one of which nearly brought him to the ground, which, if he had fallen, would at once have decided his fate.
Página 112 - By the sixth day he was able to walk about ; and within a month he grew quite well, except that he was troubled with a cough. Twenty years after his misfortune he was still alive. Another man, being on his wintering-ground, and from home, hunting beaver, was crossing a lake, covered with smooth ice, with two beavers on his back, when his foot slipped, and he fell. At his side, in his belt, was his axe, the blade of which came upon the joint of his wrist ; and, the weight of his body coming upon the...