A Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives, Or the Outrages Committed by the Indians in Their Wars with the White People: Also, an Account of Their Manners, Customs, Traditions, Religious Sentiments, Mode of Warfare, Military Tactics, Discipline and Encampments, Treatment of Prisoners, &c. which are Better Explained, and More Minutely Related, Than Has Been Heretofore Done, by Any Other Author on that Subject ; Many of the Articles Have Never Appeared in Print; The Whole Compiled from the Best Authorities, Том 2Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1808 |
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... kind of cul- tivation and improvement . The philosopher who speaks with delight , of the original simplicity , and primitive innocence of mankind , may here learn , that man , uncivilized and barbarous , is even worse than the most ...
... kind of cul- tivation and improvement . The philosopher who speaks with delight , of the original simplicity , and primitive innocence of mankind , may here learn , that man , uncivilized and barbarous , is even worse than the most ...
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... kind to us before , and given us a little meat and flour to eat , which they had found or taken from some of our men on their retreat . This town is small and we were told was about two miles distant from the main town to which they ...
... kind to us before , and given us a little meat and flour to eat , which they had found or taken from some of our men on their retreat . This town is small and we were told was about two miles distant from the main town to which they ...
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... kind of weapon or tool to assist her in getting any , and being almost destitute of clothing , also knowing that a vast tract of rugged high mountains intervened , between where she was and the inhabitants eastwardly , and the distance ...
... kind of weapon or tool to assist her in getting any , and being almost destitute of clothing , also knowing that a vast tract of rugged high mountains intervened , between where she was and the inhabitants eastwardly , and the distance ...
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... miles . After this , as she was travelling along the bank of the river , a venomous snake bit her on the ancle : she had strength to kill it , and knowing its kind , concluded that death must soon overtake her . By this ( 36 )
... miles . After this , as she was travelling along the bank of the river , a venomous snake bit her on the ancle : she had strength to kill it , and knowing its kind , concluded that death must soon overtake her . By this ( 36 )
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... kind of hole which is depressed in the floor , and which the southern people have in their cabins , in which to keep their esculent roots from the frost during the winter season . Not going down into the hole as may be supposed , though ...
... kind of hole which is depressed in the floor , and which the southern people have in their cabins , in which to keep their esculent roots from the frost during the winter season . Not going down into the hole as may be supposed , though ...
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Страница ii - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Страница 126 - Indians in a huddle before the gate, where were barrels of powder, bullets, flints &c., and every one taking what suited. I saw the Indians also march off in rank, entire — likewise the French Canadians and some regulars. After viewing the Indians and French in different positions, I computed them to be about four hundred, and wondered that they attempted to go out against Braddock with so small a party. I was then in high hopes that I would soon see them flying before the British troops, and that...
Страница 127 - ... and also a great many scalps. Those that were coming in, and those that had arrived, kept a constant firing of small arms, and also the great guns in the fort, which were accompanied with the most hideous shouts and yells from all quarters ; so that it appeared to me as if the infernal regions had broke loose.
Страница 11 - ... on him, so that in a short time he had nothing but coals of fire and hot ashes to walk upon. In the midst of these extreme tortures, he called...
Страница 128 - He had some ashes on a piece of bark, in which he frequendy dipped his fingers in order to take the firmer hold, and so he went on, as if he had been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair clean out of my head, except a small spot about three or four inches square on my crown; this they cut off with a pair of scissors...
Страница 130 - ... received with great seriousness and solemnity in the room and place of a great man. After what has passed this day, you are now one of us by an old strong law and custom. My son, you have now nothing to fear — we are now under the same obligations to love, support and defend you, that we are to love and defend one another ; therefore you are to consider yourself as one of our people.
Страница 12 - An old squaw (whose appearance every way answered the ideas people entertain of the Devil,) got a board, took a parcel of coals and ashes and laid them on his back and head, after he had been scalped; he then raised himself upon his feet and began to walk round the post ; they next put a burning stick to him as usual, but he seemed more insensible of pain than before. The...
Страница 126 - I had observed some of the old country soldiers speak Dutch ; as I spoke Dutch I went to one of them and asked him what was the news. He told me that a runner had just arrived, who said that Braddock would certainly be defeated ; that the Indians and French had surrounded him, and were concealed behind trees and in gullies, and kept a constant fire upon the English ; and that they saw the English falling in heaps, and if they did not take...
Страница 149 - ... which were skinned by pulling the skin off the neck, without ripping. After they had taken off the hair, they gathered it in small plaits round the neck and with a string drew it together like a purse ; in the centre a pin was put, below which they tied a string, and while it was wet they blew it up like a bladder, and let it remain in this manner until it was dry, when it appeared nearly in the shape of a sugar loaf, but more rounding at the lower end. One of these vessels would hold about four...
Страница 180 - I must be one of those who were to take care of the drunken people. I did not like this ; but of two evils I chose that which I thought was the least — and fell in with those who were to conceal the arms, and keep every dangerous weapon we could out of their way, and endeavor, if possible, to keep the drinking club from killing each other, which was a very hard task.