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... ground so as to form a square , with a passage at one end , which is always that towards the ene- my's country . If there are not bushes , they mark the ground , in the same manner , with small sticks . Near the passage - way of the ...
... ground so as to form a square , with a passage at one end , which is always that towards the ene- my's country . If there are not bushes , they mark the ground , in the same manner , with small sticks . Near the passage - way of the ...
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... ground where it admits of the best safety . The lead- er , on each side , immediately blows the small whistle he carries for the occasion , in imitation of the ancient trumpet , as the last signal of engagement . Now hot work begins ...
... ground where it admits of the best safety . The lead- er , on each side , immediately blows the small whistle he carries for the occasion , in imitation of the ancient trumpet , as the last signal of engagement . Now hot work begins ...
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... ground loading their pieces - then they are up firing behind trees , and immediately spring off in an oblique course to recruit and thus they act till winged victory declares itself . ? Scalping , which is the most important part of an ...
... ground loading their pieces - then they are up firing behind trees , and immediately spring off in an oblique course to recruit and thus they act till winged victory declares itself . ? Scalping , which is the most important part of an ...
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... ground for their purpose , and were extremely swift . Whenever they killed any , and got the scalp , they made off to the neighboring moun- tains , and ran over the broad ledges of rocks , in contrary courses , as occasion offered , so ...
... ground for their purpose , and were extremely swift . Whenever they killed any , and got the scalp , they made off to the neighboring moun- tains , and ran over the broad ledges of rocks , in contrary courses , as occasion offered , so ...
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... ground , senseless . Thinking him dead , they withdrew . But a little while afterwards , he recovered . Seeing nobody near him , he seized a fire - brand , shouted to his enemies , and defied them to come near him . Frightened by his ...
... ground , senseless . Thinking him dead , they withdrew . But a little while afterwards , he recovered . Seeing nobody near him , he seized a fire - brand , shouted to his enemies , and defied them to come near him . Frightened by his ...
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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...