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Page xi
... never went abreast , but followed one another in the same track : the same custom is still observed by the uncultivated natives of North America . The Tun- gusi , the most numerous nation resident in Siberia , prick their skins with ...
... never went abreast , but followed one another in the same track : the same custom is still observed by the uncultivated natives of North America . The Tun- gusi , the most numerous nation resident in Siberia , prick their skins with ...
Page xiii
... never of long duration . It is a melancholy truth , that both the white settlers and red natives were often blamable for the causes of the furious and disastrous wars with which our history abounds from its earliest period . The whites ...
... never of long duration . It is a melancholy truth , that both the white settlers and red natives were often blamable for the causes of the furious and disastrous wars with which our history abounds from its earliest period . The whites ...
Page xv
... within the recollection of the author . In truth , the term " going or sending home , " was never abandoned until after the war of the revolu tion , " To make discoveries along the coast , and find 21 INTRODUCTION . XV.
... within the recollection of the author . In truth , the term " going or sending home , " was never abandoned until after the war of the revolu tion , " To make discoveries along the coast , and find 21 INTRODUCTION . XV.
Page xxii
... never before experienced , I am like Sutor ultra crepidam , and therefore dare pretend no more than ( nakedly ) to recount matters of ffact . Beseeching yo'r hono'r will vouch safe to allow , that in 30 years , divers occurrences are ...
... never before experienced , I am like Sutor ultra crepidam , and therefore dare pretend no more than ( nakedly ) to recount matters of ffact . Beseeching yo'r hono'r will vouch safe to allow , that in 30 years , divers occurrences are ...
Page xxix
... never had inclinac'ons to tam- per in the precarious intrigues of Govern't . and my hands being full of my own business : they press't se- verall cogent argum'ts . and I having considerable debts in that county , besides my plantation ...
... never had inclinac'ons to tam- per in the precarious intrigues of Govern't . and my hands being full of my own business : they press't se- verall cogent argum'ts . and I having considerable debts in that county , besides my plantation ...
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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.