Indian Captivities; Or, Life in the Wigwam: Being True Narratives of Captives who Have Been Carried Away by the Indians, from the Frontier Settlements of the United States, from the Earliest Period to the Present TimeDerby & Miller, 1853 - 361 страници |
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... called a temple , but of what dimensions it was he makes no mention . Over the door of entrance into this temple there was placed the figure of a bird , carved out in wood , and it was especially surprising that this bird had gilded ...
... called a temple , but of what dimensions it was he makes no mention . Over the door of entrance into this temple there was placed the figure of a bird , carved out in wood , and it was especially surprising that this bird had gilded ...
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... called Autiamque , upon the Washita , or perhaps Red River , and it was here that difficulties began to thicken upon them . When in the spring they would march from thence , Soto was grieved , because he had lost so good an interpreter ...
... called Autiamque , upon the Washita , or perhaps Red River , and it was here that difficulties began to thicken upon them . When in the spring they would march from thence , Soto was grieved , because he had lost so good an interpreter ...
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... called for more than one hundred and fifty years . It is said to have taken its name from an Indian whom the English called George , and who had a wigwam upon it . The name in- cludes the whole range of the fertile and delightful ridge ...
... called for more than one hundred and fifty years . It is said to have taken its name from an Indian whom the English called George , and who had a wigwam upon it . The name in- cludes the whole range of the fertile and delightful ridge ...
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... called Wenimesset , [ New Braintree ] north- ward of Quabaug , [ Brookfield . ] When we were come , Oh the number of Pagans , now merciless enemies , that there came about me , that I may say as David , Psal . 27 : 13 , " I had faint ...
... called Wenimesset , [ New Braintree ] north- ward of Quabaug , [ Brookfield . ] When we were come , Oh the number of Pagans , now merciless enemies , that there came about me , that I may say as David , Psal . 27 : 13 , " I had faint ...
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... called her sannup , and would have had him go back also , but he would not , but said he would go on , and come to us again in three days . My spirit was upon this , I confess , very impatient , and almost outrageous . I thought I could ...
... called her sannup , and would have had him go back also , but he would not , but said he would go on , and come to us again in three days . My spirit was upon this , I confess , very impatient , and almost outrageous . I thought I could ...
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Страница 42 - And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
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 31 - So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
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 26 - I am feeble and sore broken : I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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 43 - Shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it?
Страница 39 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.
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 34 - I did, for which he gave me a shilling. I offered the money to my master, but he bade me keep it; and with it I bought a piece of horse flesh. Afterwards he asked me to make a cap for his boy, for which he invited me to dinner. I went, and he gave me a pancake, about as big as two fingers. It was made of parched wheat, beaten, and fried in bear's grease, but I thought I never tasted pleasanter meat in my life.