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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... snow , and when night came on they stopt . And now down I must sit in the snow , by a lit- tle fire , and a few boughs behind me , with my sick child in my lap , and calling much for water , being now , through the wound , fallen into a ...
... snow , and when night came on they stopt . And now down I must sit in the snow , by a lit- tle fire , and a few boughs behind me , with my sick child in my lap , and calling much for water , being now , through the wound , fallen into a ...
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... snow or rain . We noted that on this mountain all the water run northward . Here also we wanted provision ; but at length we met again on the other side of the mountain , viz . on the north side , at a river that runs into the lake ...
... snow or rain . We noted that on this mountain all the water run northward . Here also we wanted provision ; but at length we met again on the other side of the mountain , viz . on the north side , at a river that runs into the lake ...
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... snow , but could not rise ; then he took his coat and wrapt me in it , and went back and sent two Indians with a sled . One said he must knock me on the head , the other said no , they would carry me away and burn me . Then they bid me ...
... snow , but could not rise ; then he took his coat and wrapt me in it , and went back and sent two Indians with a sled . One said he must knock me on the head , the other said no , they would carry me away and burn me . Then they bid me ...
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... snow that in the night had fallen ; but , at length awaking , what agonies may you imagine she was in , on finding herself left a prey for bears and wolves , and without any sustenance , in a howling wilderness , many scores of leagues ...
... snow that in the night had fallen ; but , at length awaking , what agonies may you imagine she was in , on finding herself left a prey for bears and wolves , and without any sustenance , in a howling wilderness , many scores of leagues ...
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... snow on the ground , and the moose discovering them , ran with great force into a swamp . The Indians went round the swamp , and finding no track , returned at night to the wigwam , and told what had happened . The next morning they ...
... snow on the ground , and the moose discovering them , ran with great force into a swamp . The Indians went round the swamp , and finding no track , returned at night to the wigwam , and told what had happened . The next morning they ...
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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?