Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and Character of the North American Natives, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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... leaves the sacred stem as a pledge of his return , no consideration whatever will prevent him from executing his engagement . The pipe is also used at the entertainments sometimes furnished by a leading man . A Knistenau chief , when he ...
... leaves the sacred stem as a pledge of his return , no consideration whatever will prevent him from executing his engagement . The pipe is also used at the entertainments sometimes furnished by a leading man . A Knistenau chief , when he ...
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... leaves on his crown , extend it as far as they can . With the other hand , they draw the long sharp - pointed scalping - knife , give a slash with it round the top of the skull ; and with a few dexterous scoops , soon strip it off . The ...
... leaves on his crown , extend it as far as they can . With the other hand , they draw the long sharp - pointed scalping - knife , give a slash with it round the top of the skull ; and with a few dexterous scoops , soon strip it off . The ...
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... leaves , sand , or dust over the prints of their feet ; sometimes tread in each other's footsteps ; and sometimes lift their feet so high , and tread so lightly , as not to make any impression on the ground . But if they find all these ...
... leaves , sand , or dust over the prints of their feet ; sometimes tread in each other's footsteps ; and sometimes lift their feet so high , and tread so lightly , as not to make any impression on the ground . But if they find all these ...
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... leaves of the trees , appeared to be perishing . In this emergency , the women ap- plied to an old Delaware whose name was Chenos , to supply them with the weather they wanted . They gave him a good fee , and he made an attempt , which ...
... leaves of the trees , appeared to be perishing . In this emergency , the women ap- plied to an old Delaware whose name was Chenos , to supply them with the weather they wanted . They gave him a good fee , and he made an attempt , which ...
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... leaves of the trees . He had met them on their way up the river , coming to make war upon the Indians . The Chief had a third question to propose , and the Spirit , without a fresh journey to Fort Niagara , was able to give it an ...
... leaves of the trees . He had met them on their way up the river , coming to make war upon the Indians . The Chief had a third question to propose , and the Spirit , without a fresh journey to Fort Niagara , was able to give it an ...
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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...