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... heard for the shrill echoing noise of the war and death - whoop . Every one furiously pursues his adversary from tree to tree , striving to encircle him for his pray ; and the greedy jaws of pale death are open on all sides , to swallow ...
... heard for the shrill echoing noise of the war and death - whoop . Every one furiously pursues his adversary from tree to tree , striving to encircle him for his pray ; and the greedy jaws of pale death are open on all sides , to swallow ...
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... ten years . They occupied a double cabin . In one division were the two grown daughters and the smaller girl ; in the other , the remainder of the family . At evening twilight , a knocking was heard at the door of WARFARE . 43.
... ten years . They occupied a double cabin . In one division were the two grown daughters and the smaller girl ; in the other , the remainder of the family . At evening twilight , a knocking was heard at the door of WARFARE . 43.
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... heard at the door of the latter , asking in good English , and the customary phrase of the country , who keeps house ? ' As the sons were opening the door , the mother forbade , affirming that there were Indians there . The young men ...
... heard at the door of the latter , asking in good English , and the customary phrase of the country , who keeps house ? ' As the sons were opening the door , the mother forbade , affirming that there were Indians there . The young men ...
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... heard before . The singing of some of the Penobscot young wo- men , on the occasion just referred to , though attended with what the whites call a tone , was surprisingly musical , and in perfectly exact time ; and of nearly a hundred ...
... heard before . The singing of some of the Penobscot young wo- men , on the occasion just referred to , though attended with what the whites call a tone , was surprisingly musical , and in perfectly exact time ; and of nearly a hundred ...
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... heard from all sides in the house ; Oh ! the accident ! ' for such it was always considered to have been , and as such it was treated . In another instance , a Delaware hunter went out to kill a bear , some of those animals having been ...
... heard from all sides in the house ; Oh ! the accident ! ' for such it was always considered to have been , and as such it was treated . In another instance , a Delaware hunter went out to kill a bear , some of those animals having been ...
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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...