History of the Ojebway Indians: With Especial Reference to Their Conversion to Christianity |
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Page 25 - I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 200 - me for vengeance. I have sought it ; I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace ; but do not harbour the thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan ? Not one !
Page 221 - River Credit, and her only daughter lying apparently at the point of death. In all these afflictions religion was her only consolation, and she was often heard to sing,— " My company before is gone, And I am left alone with Thee,
Page 80 - industrious squaw, which he like, he go to him, place his two fore-fingers close aside each other, make two look like one, look squaw in the face—see him smile— which is all one he say yes ! so he take him home—no danger he cross ! no ! no ! Squaw know too well what Indian do if he cross ! throw him away and take another
Page 248 - a small kettle, several pairs of mocassins, its own strings of beads ; and because it was a girl, a carrying belt and a paddle. The kettle was filled with meal. The last act of the mother (crying over the child) was that of taking from it a lock of hair for a memorial, that by this
Page 228 - are the views which you form of the character of Jesus? You will answer, perhaps, that he was a man of singular benevolence. You will tell me that he proved this to be his character by the nature of the miracles which he wrought. All these, you will say, were kind in the
Page 25 - forefathers long before the European planted his footsteps on our shores, when the red man could cast his eye from the Atlantic on the east to the Pacific ocean on the west, from the frozen regions of the north to Cape Horn in the south, and, viewing the immense continent in its length and breadth, exclaim,
Page 198 - out, and help us to do this great work, to preach the gospel to every creature ! Ah, Mr. Gold, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, to sleep so much in your iron chest ! Look at your white brother, Mr. Silver. He does a great deal of good
Page 248 - burial of a child who had been scalded. He says :—" I did not fail to attend the funeral. The grave was made of a large size, and the whole of the inside lined with birch bark. On the bank was laid the body of the child, accompanied with an
Page 160 - in stature. On account of this unwillingness to tell their names, many strangers have fancied that they either nave no names or have forgotten them. Husbands and wives never mention, each other's names, it not being in accordance with Indian notions