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" ... breast, pulled out his knife, and said he would kill me, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for them. Notwithstanding... "
Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of ... - Page 19
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
...out his knife, and said he would kill me, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for them. Notwithstanding all I could say, be began to cut and stab me on my breast....
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Events in Indian History: Beginning with an Account of the Origin of the ...

James Wimer - Indian captivities - 1841 - 788 pages
...out his knife, and said he would kill mo, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for thorn. Notwithstanding all I could say, he began to cut and stab me on my breast....
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Events in Indian History: Beginning with an Account of the Origin of the ...

James Wimer - Indian captivities - 1841 - 664 pages
...he would kill me, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, end that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for them. Notwithstanding all I could say, he began to cut and stab me on my breast....
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Tragedies of the Wilderness: Or, True and Authentic Narratives of Captives ...

Samuel G. Drake - Indian captivities - 1844 - 368 pages
...out his knife, and said he would kill me, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for them. Notwithstanding all I could say, be began to cut and stab me on my breast....
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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
...out his knife, and said he would kill me, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for them. Notwithstanding all I could say, be began to cut and stab me on my breast....
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Indian Captivities Or Life in the Wigwam

1857 - 414 pages
...out his knife, and said he would kill me, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for them. Notwithstanding all I could say, be began to cut and stab me on my breast....
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Ancient Dominions of Maine: Embracing the Earliest Facts, the Recent ...

Rufus King Sewall - Indians of North America - 1859 - 414 pages
...menaced him with death, saying — "he never had yet killed one of the English." Gyles replied — " he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery" But the savage began to cut and stab him on the breast, in defiance of all expostulation....
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Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, Etc. in the Captivity of ...

John Gyles - Indian captivities - 1869 - 80 pages
...out his knife, and said he would kill me, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for them. Notwithstanding all I could say, he began to cut and stab me on my breast....
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The Wigwam and the War-path; Or, Tales of the Red Indians

Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - Indian captivities - 1892 - 404 pages
...out his knife, and said he would kill me, for he had never yet killed one of the English. I told him he might go to war, and that would be more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing their drudgery for them. Notwithstanding all I could say, he began to cut and stab me on my breast....
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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
...pulling out his knife, said that he would kill me, for he had never yet killed an English person. I told him that he might go to war and that would be...more manly than to kill a poor captive who was doing 29. [Gyles.] Though both male and female may be in the water at a time, they have each of them more...
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