Western Scenes and Reminiscences: Together with Thrilling Legends and Traditions of the Red Men of the Forest. To which is Added Several Narratives of Adventures Among the IndiansDerby & Miller, 1853 - 495 էջ |
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... received , one day , a note from one of the directors of the White Lead Works , above the city , requesting me to visit it , and inspect in detail the processes of the manufacture . The latter I found to be defective in the mode of ...
... received , one day , a note from one of the directors of the White Lead Works , above the city , requesting me to visit it , and inspect in detail the processes of the manufacture . The latter I found to be defective in the mode of ...
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... received an invitation to go and cure the Governor of Indiana . We now had Indiana on our right hand , and Kentucky on our left . These are the principal incidents of the trip . We reached our destina- tion in safety , and landed on the ...
... received an invitation to go and cure the Governor of Indiana . We now had Indiana on our right hand , and Kentucky on our left . These are the principal incidents of the trip . We reached our destina- tion in safety , and landed on the ...
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... received with attention by one of the principal residents , who , on learning that my object was to examine the natural history of the country , invited me to his house . In rambling the vicinity , they showed me a somewhat extra but ...
... received with attention by one of the principal residents , who , on learning that my object was to examine the natural history of the country , invited me to his house . In rambling the vicinity , they showed me a somewhat extra but ...
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... received by the Spanish local governor . He obtained a grant of land in the present area of Washington county , the principal seat of the older mines . About the time I went to Missouri , or soon after it , he resolved to visit San ...
... received by the Spanish local governor . He obtained a grant of land in the present area of Washington county , the principal seat of the older mines . About the time I went to Missouri , or soon after it , he resolved to visit San ...
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... received me with cordiality . He returned my visit in the evening , and insisted on my taking up my quarters at his house . The time that I spent here , was devoted to the most prominent objects which the town and its vicinity presented ...
... received me with cordiality . He returned my visit in the evening , and insisted on my taking up my quarters at his house . The time that I spent here , was devoted to the most prominent objects which the town and its vicinity presented ...
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Common terms and phrases
Abenakies adjective Algonquin American ancient animal appears ardent spirits band banks beaver called Canada canoes Cartier character chief Chippewa Choctaws civil civilisation coast corn Creeks dance denote discovery Donnacona early English feet fire fish forest forms French head Hochelaga hunter hunting Huron Indian families inflections inhabited Iroquois island izzi killed Lake Huron lake Michigan Lake Superior land language latter Lawrence leagues lived lodge maize manner Mexico Michilimackinac miles minno Mississippi mountains nation of Indians native Neen night object observed Odjibwa Ohio Ottawas party passed person plain plural present pronoun race reached river rock settlement Shingebiss shore Sioux Sir William Johnson songs stone stream term territory things Thou thought tion told took tradition trees tribes tshe valley verb vessels village voyage warriors Wawatam Ween wild wood word Wyandots
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Էջ 222 - Within the paths of righteousness, ev'n for his own name's sake. *Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear none ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still.
Էջ 413 - Through an aperture, which afforded me a view of the area of the fort, I beheld, in shapes the foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of barbarian conquerors. The dead were scalped and mangled; the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood, scooped up in the hollow of joined hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory.
Էջ 413 - Langlade, my next neighbor, there was only a low fence, over which I easily climbed. At my entrance I found the whole family at the windows, gazing at the scene of blood before them. I addressed myself immediately to M. Langlade, begging that he would put me into some place of safety, until the heat of the affair should be over ; an act of charity by which he might perhaps preserve me from the general massacre ; but while I uttered my petition, M. Langlade, who. had looked for a moment at me, turned...
Էջ 412 - Two posts are planted in the ground at a considerable distance from each other, as a mile or more. Each party has its post, and the game consists in throwing the ball up to the post of the adversary. The ball, at the beginning, is placed in the middle of the course and each party endeavors as well to throw the ball out of the direction of its own post as into that of the adversary's.
Էջ 414 - ... in which I was, must have contributed. In a word, after taking several turns in the room, during which they told M. Langlade how many they had killed, and how many scalps they had taken, they returned down stairs, and I, with sensations not to be expressed, heard the door, which was the barrier between me and my fate, locked for the second time.
Էջ 221 - The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want. He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by.
Էջ 346 - ... that Addison was first seduced to excess by the manumission which he obtained from the servile timidity of his sober hours. He that feels oppression from the presence of those to whom he knows himself superior will desire to set loose his powers of conversation ; and who that ever asked succours from Bacchus was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary...
Էջ 224 - Firefly, firefly, bright little thing, Light me to bed, and my song I will sing; Give me your light, as you fly o'er my head, That I may merrily go to my bed. Give me your light o'er the grass as you creep, That I may joyfully go to my sleep. " Come, little firefly ! Come, little beast ! Come, and I'll make you to-morrow a feast. Come, little candle, that flies as I sing, Bright little fairy bug, — night's little king ; Come, and I'll dance as you guide me along, Come, and I'll pay you, firefly,...
Էջ 422 - ... who had the command in this enterprise, gave me your promise that you would protect my friend, delivering him from all danger, and giving him safely to me. " The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You...
Էջ 426 - ... was ; but, when daylight visited my chamber, I discovered, with some feelings of horror, that I was lying on nothing less than a heap of human bones and skulls, which covered all the floor ! The day passed without the return of Wawatam, and without food.