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... party , has no other means of control over the individuals composing it , than his personal influence gives him ; it is therefore necessary they should have some method of rousing and stimulating them- selves to exertion 20 WARFARE .
... party , has no other means of control over the individuals composing it , than his personal influence gives him ; it is therefore necessary they should have some method of rousing and stimulating them- selves to exertion 20 WARFARE .
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... brand hurled at his head , finally gave his enemies an advantage which enabled them to approach and destroy him . It should by no means be understood from the anecdotes just given , that the custom of torturing WARFARE . 31.
... brand hurled at his head , finally gave his enemies an advantage which enabled them to approach and destroy him . It should by no means be understood from the anecdotes just given , that the custom of torturing WARFARE . 31.
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... means to take prisoner a woman who had with her a son of about twelve years of age . Being satisfied with the execution they had done , they retreated towards their native country , which lay at three hundred miles distance , and ...
... means to take prisoner a woman who had with her a son of about twelve years of age . Being satisfied with the execution they had done , they retreated towards their native country , which lay at three hundred miles distance , and ...
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... means of a string which passes round the breast . * We have spoken of Indian warfare as it is carried on by the tribes against each other . Their mode of fighting the whites has always been somewhat different from this , as might be ...
... means of a string which passes round the breast . * We have spoken of Indian warfare as it is carried on by the tribes against each other . Their mode of fighting the whites has always been somewhat different from this , as might be ...
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... means of them lighting up their own faces , till their distended cheeks had very much the appearance of pocket - lanterns . The traveller took some pains to ascertain the secret of this fire - eating . As one of the performers ...
... means of them lighting up their own faces , till their distended cheeks had very much the appearance of pocket - lanterns . The traveller took some pains to ascertain the secret of this fire - eating . As one of the performers ...
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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...