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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... gives dissatisfaction even to the general reader . Mr. McClung's " Sketches of Western Adventure " is a work of thrilling interest , but its value is entirely lost in particular instances from the above considerations . Dr. Metcalf was ...
... gives dissatisfaction even to the general reader . Mr. McClung's " Sketches of Western Adventure " is a work of thrilling interest , but its value is entirely lost in particular instances from the above considerations . Dr. Metcalf was ...
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... give back . * Mr. Willard , in his History of Lancaster , says he cannot ascertain that attacks were made in more than two places previous to that upon Mr. Rowlandson's house ; the first of which was Wheeler's garrison , at Wataquodoc ...
... give back . * Mr. Willard , in his History of Lancaster , says he cannot ascertain that attacks were made in more than two places previous to that upon Mr. Rowlandson's house ; the first of which was Wheeler's garrison , at Wataquodoc ...
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... give me one spoonful of the meal , but she would not give me a taste . They quickly fell to cutting dry trees , to make rafts to carry them over the river , and scon my turn came to go over . By the advantage of some brush which they ...
... give me one spoonful of the meal , but she would not give me a taste . They quickly fell to cutting dry trees , to make rafts to carry them over the river , and scon my turn came to go over . By the advantage of some brush which they ...
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... give them courage or activity to go over after us . We were not ready for so great a mercy as victory and deliverance ; if we had been , God would have found out a way for the English to have passed this river , as well as for the ...
... give them courage or activity to go over after us . We were not ready for so great a mercy as victory and deliverance ; if we had been , God would have found out a way for the English to have passed this river , as well as for the ...
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... give me a piece . " What , " says he , " can you eat horse - liver ? " I told him I would try , if he would give me a piece , which he did ; and I laid it on the coals to roast ; but before it was half ready , they got half of it away ...
... give me a piece . " What , " says he , " can you eat horse - liver ? " I told him I would try , if he would give me a piece , which he did ; and I laid it on the coals to roast ; but before it was half ready , they got half of it away ...
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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.