Tragedies of the Wilderness: Or, True and Authentic Narratives of Captives, who Have Been Carried Away by the Indians from the Various Frontier Settlements of the United States, from the Earliest to the Present Time. Illustrating the Manners and Customs, Barbarous Rites and Ceremonies, of the North American Indians, and Their Various Methods of Torture Practised Upon Such as Have, from Time to Time, Fallen Into Their HandsAntiquarian bookstore and institute, 1844 - 354 страници |
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... Died in captivity 127 Nehemiah How Mary Fowler John Fitch Isabella M'Coy Peter Williamson [ Mass . 22 Ap . 1746 Hopkinton , N.H. July , 1746 Ashby , Mass . 21 Au . 1747 Epsom , N. H. 2 Oct. 1754 Delaware Forks , [ Pa . Six months 140 To ...
... Died in captivity 127 Nehemiah How Mary Fowler John Fitch Isabella M'Coy Peter Williamson [ Mass . 22 Ap . 1746 Hopkinton , N.H. July , 1746 Ashby , Mass . 21 Au . 1747 Epsom , N. H. 2 Oct. 1754 Delaware Forks , [ Pa . Six months 140 To ...
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... died all around us - in our very places . We do not distinctly behold the hands , the feet , or the bones of them , because they have crumbled to dust beneath our feet . And cannot the ghosts of these as well arise as of those slain ...
... died all around us - in our very places . We do not distinctly behold the hands , the feet , or the bones of them , because they have crumbled to dust beneath our feet . And cannot the ghosts of these as well arise as of those slain ...
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... died a few months before , and with him fell the already disappointed hopes of his leader . They had taken up winter quarters at a place called Autiamque , upon the Washita , or perhaps Red River , and it was here that difficulties ...
... died a few months before , and with him fell the already disappointed hopes of his leader . They had taken up winter quarters at a place called Autiamque , upon the Washita , or perhaps Red River , and it was here that difficulties ...
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... died . That day , a little after noon , we came to Squaheag , * where the Indians quickly spread themselves over the deserted English fields , gleaning what they could find . Some picked up ears of wheat that were crickled down , some ...
... died . That day , a little after noon , we came to Squaheag , * where the Indians quickly spread themselves over the deserted English fields , gleaning what they could find . Some picked up ears of wheat that were crickled down , some ...
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... died as went back . I cannot declare the trouble that I was in about it ; back again I must go . As soon as I had an opportunity , I took my Bible to read , and that qui- eting scripture came to my hand , Psalm 46 : 10 , — “ Be still ...
... died as went back . I cannot declare the trouble that I was in about it ; back again I must go . As soon as I had an opportunity , I took my Bible to read , and that qui- eting scripture came to my hand , Psalm 46 : 10 , — “ Be still ...
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Страница 42 - For a small moment have I forsaken thee ; But with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; But with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, Saith the Lord thy Redeemer.
Страница 26 - I am feeble and sore broken : I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Страница 29 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Страница 27 - Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Страница 31 - Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Страница 39 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
Страница 42 - And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee...
Страница 30 - Thus saith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord ; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again to their own border.
Страница 42 - Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove : Mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed ; undertake for me.
Страница 21 - ... blood, the house on fire over our heads, and the bloody heathen ready to knock us on the head if we stirred out. Now might we hear mothers and children crying out for themselves and one another, "Lord, what shall we do?