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... Hunting 345 22. The wedding 350 23. The house warming 355 24. Working 357 25. Mechanic arts 359 26. Medicine 365 27. Sports 28. Witchcraft 371 376 29. Morals 30. Slavery 31. Civilization 381 386 394 SURPRISING ADVENTURES APPENDIX 411 ...
... Hunting 345 22. The wedding 350 23. The house warming 355 24. Working 357 25. Mechanic arts 359 26. Medicine 365 27. Sports 28. Witchcraft 371 376 29. Morals 30. Slavery 31. Civilization 381 386 394 SURPRISING ADVENTURES APPENDIX 411 ...
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... this great object . But upon inquiry , no particular tribe could be found who pretended to have any prior claim to the soil . It was considered the common hunting ground of various tribes , and not claimed by any 60 INDIAN SETTLEMENTS .
... this great object . But upon inquiry , no particular tribe could be found who pretended to have any prior claim to the soil . It was considered the common hunting ground of various tribes , and not claimed by any 60 INDIAN SETTLEMENTS .
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... hunting , and one party was unsuccessful , and found the game of the more suc- cessful party hung up , if they needed provision they took it ; and this was not stealing - it was the law and custom of the tribes . If they went to war ...
... hunting , and one party was unsuccessful , and found the game of the more suc- cessful party hung up , if they needed provision they took it ; and this was not stealing - it was the law and custom of the tribes . If they went to war ...
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... hunters , and spent much of their time and depended chiefly for support and money - ma- king on the sale of skins and furs . Moses Russell , Esq . informed the author that the hilly lands about his residence , near the base of the North ...
... hunters , and spent much of their time and depended chiefly for support and money - ma- king on the sale of skins and furs . Moses Russell , Esq . informed the author that the hilly lands about his residence , near the base of the North ...
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... hunting , retired , and the other laid himself down and pretended to fall asleep , with a view , as was believed ... hunter In- dian had not returned to his comrade , or that they were in great force somewhere near and in ambush . They ...
... hunting , retired , and the other laid himself down and pretended to fall asleep , with a view , as was believed ... hunter In- dian had not returned to his comrade , or that they were in great force somewhere near and in ambush . They ...
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Page 125 - He knew his lord : — he knew, and strove to meet (In vain he strove), to crawl, and kiss his feet; Yet (all he could) his tail, his ears, his eyes, Salute his master, and confess his joys.
Page 125 - Jove fixed it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
Page 156 - Logan, not sparing even my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. 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...
Page 156 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. 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 harbor a 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 341 - The fort consisted of cabins, block-houses and stockades. A range of cabins commonly formed one side at least of the fort. Divisions, or partitions of log.?, separated the cabins from each other. The walls on the outside were ten or twelve feet high, the slope of the roof being turned wholly inward. A very few of these cabins had puncheon floors : the greater part were earthen.
Page 346 - I have often seen them get up early in the morning at this season, walk hastily out, and look anxiously to the woods and snuff the autumnal winds with the highest rapture, then return into the house and cast a quick and attentive look at the rifle, which was always suspended to a joist by a couple of buck horns, or little forks.
Page 349 - ... approach them without being discovered. If he succeeded in killing a deer, he skinned it and hung it up out of the reach of the wolves, and immediately resumed the chase till the close of the evening, when he bent his course...
Page xxiii - Indians Committed the last Massacre, but not after, untill that present Year 1675. The Third strange Appearance was Swarms of Flyes about an Inch long, and big as the Top of a Man's little finger, rising out of Spigot Holes in the Earth, which Eat the New Sprouted Leaves from the Tops of the Trees without other Harm, and in a Month left us.
Page 341 - In some forts, instead of blockhouses, the angles of the fort were furnished with bastions. A large folding gate, made of thick slabs, nearest the spring, closed the fort. The stockades, bastions, cabins, and blockhouse walls, were furnished with port-holes at proper heights and distances. The whole of the outside was made completely bullet-proof. " It may be truly said that necessity is the mother of invention...
Page xxix - There is joy in the presence of the angels over one sinner that repenteth.