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" I found not the town at night. Thus we were hunting three hundred miles from the sea, and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number, and had but two guns, on which we wholly depended for food. "
Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of ... - Page 9
by John Gyles - 1736 - 40 pages
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Indian Captivities, Being a Collection of the Most Remarkable Narratives of ...

Samuel G. Drake - Indian captivities - 1839 - 382 pages
...night. Thus we were hunting three hundred miles* from the sea, and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number, and had but two guns, on which we *A pardonable error, perhaps, considering the author's ignorance of the geography...
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Tragedies of the Wilderness: Or, True and Authentic Narratives of Captives ...

Samuel G. Drake - Indian captivities - 1841 - 374 pages
...night. Thus we were hunting three hundred miles* from the sea, and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number, and had but two guns, on which we *A pardonable error, perhaps, considering the author's ignorance of the geography...
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Events in Indian History: Beginning with an Account of the Origin of the ...

James Wimer - Indian captivities - 1841 - 788 pages
...night. Thus we were hihiting three hundred miles from the sea, and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number, and had but two guns, on which we wholly depended for food. If any disaster had happened, we must all have perished....
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Indian Wars of the United States: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

John Frost - Indian captivities - 1852 - 708 pages
...night. Thus we were hunting three hundred miles* from the sea, and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number, and had but two guns, on which we JOHN GYLES' CAPTIVITY. wholly depended for food. If any disaster had happened, we...
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Indian Captivities Or Life in the Wigwam

1857 - 414 pages
...night. Thus we were hunting three hundred miles* from the sea, and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number, and had but two guns, on which we *A pardonable error, perhaps, considering the author's ignorance of the geography...
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Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, Etc. in the Captivity of ...

John Gyles - Indian captivities - 1869 - 80 pages
...direction, without crossing the St. Lawrence. — SG DRAKE. the sea, and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number, and had but two guns, on which we wholly depended for food. If any disaster had happened, we must all have perished....
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Puritans Among the Indians: Accounts of Captivity and Redemption, 1676-1724

Alden T. Vaughan, Edward W Clark - Religion - 2009 - 292 pages
...night. Thus we had been hunting three hundred miles from the sea and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number and had...guns on whom we wholly depended for food, and if any disaster had happened, we must all have perished. And sometimes we had no manner of sustenance for...
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Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada

Royal Society of Canada - Humanities - 1921 - 752 pages
...The narrative continues: "Thus we were hunting 300 miles from the sea and knew no man within 50 or 60 miles of us. We were eight or ten in number and had but two guns on which- we wholly depended for food. If any disaster had happened we must all have perished....
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Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642-1836

Richard VanDerBeets - History - 1994 - 424 pages
...night. Thus we were hunting three hundred miles from the sea, and knew no man within fifty or sixty miles of us. We were eight or ten in number, and had but two guns, on which we wholly depended for food. If any disaster had happened, we must all have perished....
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