Indian Traits: Being Sketches of the Manners, Customs, and Character of the North American Natives, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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... Various Indian Customs not heretofore noticed - Modes of measuring Time and Distance - Ideas of Geography , As- tronomy , Computation , & c . - Division of the Seasons- Modes of recording Events - Indian Arithmetic - Indian Devices to ...
... Various Indian Customs not heretofore noticed - Modes of measuring Time and Distance - Ideas of Geography , As- tronomy , Computation , & c . - Division of the Seasons- Modes of recording Events - Indian Arithmetic - Indian Devices to ...
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... various brilliant col- ors , interlaced with locks of female hair ; and sometimes two wings of a rare bird attached to it in such a manner as to give it the appearance of what the ancient Greeks and Romans in their mythology , called ...
... various brilliant col- ors , interlaced with locks of female hair ; and sometimes two wings of a rare bird attached to it in such a manner as to give it the appearance of what the ancient Greeks and Romans in their mythology , called ...
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... , ' which we may refer to again ; and various other festivities , too numerous to be described , and scarcely of consequence enough to deserve mention . CHAPTER II . Anecdotes of Indian WARFARE - Indian ideas 14 FEASTS .
... , ' which we may refer to again ; and various other festivities , too numerous to be described , and scarcely of consequence enough to deserve mention . CHAPTER II . Anecdotes of Indian WARFARE - Indian ideas 14 FEASTS .
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... various figures , still having their dead and wounded un- der their eye . Now they are flat on the ground loading their pieces - then they are up firing behind trees , and immediately spring off in an oblique course to recruit and thus ...
... various figures , still having their dead and wounded un- der their eye . Now they are flat on the ground loading their pieces - then they are up firing behind trees , and immediately spring off in an oblique course to recruit and thus ...
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... various reasons large war - parties , after all the ceremonies we have mentioned , and fre- quently after nearly reaching the enemy's coun- try , are broken up by desertion or disagreement , or perhaps go back all together . Frequently ...
... various reasons large war - parties , after all the ceremonies we have mentioned , and fre- quently after nearly reaching the enemy's coun- try , are broken up by desertion or disagreement , or perhaps go back all together . Frequently ...
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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...