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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... provision ; and in the morning away they went . During my abode in this place , Philip spake to me to make a shirt for his boy , which I did ; for which he gave me a shilling . I offered the money to my mistress , but she bid me keep it ...
... provision ; and in the morning away they went . During my abode in this place , Philip spake to me to make a shirt for his boy , which I did ; for which he gave me a shilling . I offered the money to my mistress , but she bid me keep it ...
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... provision I had in my travel for one day . The Indians returning from Northampton brought with them some horses , and sheep , and other things which they had taken . I desired them that they would carry me to Albany upon one of those ...
... provision I had in my travel for one day . The Indians returning from Northampton brought with them some horses , and sheep , and other things which they had taken . I desired them that they would carry me to Albany upon one of those ...
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... provisions Mr. Hoar had brought . And we may see the wonderful power of God , in that one passage , in that when ... provision , but also trading cloth , a part of the twenty pounds agreed upon . But instead of doing us any mischief ...
... provisions Mr. Hoar had brought . And we may see the wonderful power of God , in that one passage , in that when ... provision , but also trading cloth , a part of the twenty pounds agreed upon . But instead of doing us any mischief ...
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... provisions , and be obliged to leave their pursuit , and turn homeward , and the next week the enemy came upon our town , like bears bereft of their whelps , or so many ravenous wolves , rending us and our lambs to death . But what ...
... provisions , and be obliged to leave their pursuit , and turn homeward , and the next week the enemy came upon our town , like bears bereft of their whelps , or so many ravenous wolves , rending us and our lambs to death . But what ...
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... provisions which they plun- dered from the English . I can but stand in admiration to see the wonderful power of God , in providing for such a vast number of our enemies in the wilderness , where there was nothing to be seen but from ...
... provisions which they plun- dered from the English . I can but stand in admiration to see the wonderful power of God , in providing for such a vast number of our enemies in the wilderness , where there was nothing to be seen but from ...
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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.
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