 | Francis Parkman - 1991 - 1012 էջ
...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,...with horror, but with fear. The sufferings which I witin equivocal terms by Henry, was the son of a Frenchman of good family and an Ottawa squaw. He was... | |
 | Howard Henry Peckham - 1994 - 388 էջ
...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,...of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory."6 The Chippewas had planned this surprise by themselves, after learning that Pontiac had begun... | |
 | Richard VanDerBeets - 1994 - 424 էջ
...the Indians [London, 1778]); Alexander Henry observed at the massacre at Fort Michilimackinac that "from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers...hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory" (Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories [New York, 1809]). Cf. also the account... | |
 | R.G. Moyles - 1994 - 346 էջ
...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,...were drinking the blood, scooped up in the hollow ofjoined hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory. I was shaken, not only The garret was... | |
 | Willis F. Dunbar, George S. May - 1995 - 788 էջ
...shtieking under the unsariared knife and tomahawk; and rrom the bndies of some, ripped open, their burchers were drinking the blood, scooped up in the hollow...of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory.2 With Captain Etheringron ar Michilimackinac were Lieurenant William Leslye, whom he had succeeded... | |
 | David Sievert Lavender, David Lavender - 1998 - 532 էջ
...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,...hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory. The wild triumph did not long endure. Strong British forces hurried to help besieged Pittsburgh and... | |
 | John Roblin Abbott, Graeme Stewart Mount, Michael J. Mulloy - 2000 - 194 էջ
...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.5 (Of course, there were several occasions in the history of North America where those who perpetrated... | |
 | David Dixon - 2005 - 384 էջ
...and mangled," Henry remembered; "the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open,...of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory."38 When the cries of the dying and wounded subsided, the Sauk and Chippewa warriors took stock... | |
 | Germaine Warkentin - 2007 - 606 էջ
...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,...experiencing. No long time elapsed, before every one being destroyed, who could be found, there was a general cry, of "All is finished!" At the same instant,... | |
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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... 
