A History of the Valley of VirginiaJ. Gatewood, printer, 1850 - 347 страници |
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... battle , where diverse years before ~ Tatapatamoi her husband had led a hundred of his Indians in help to th ' English against our former enemy Indians , and was there slaine with most of his men ; for which no compensation [ at all ] ...
... battle , where diverse years before ~ Tatapatamoi her husband had led a hundred of his Indians in help to th ' English against our former enemy Indians , and was there slaine with most of his men ; for which no compensation [ at all ] ...
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... battles fought on the Co- hongoruton . * At the mouth of Antietam , a small creek on the Maryland * Cohongoruton is the ancient Indian name of the Potomac , from its junction with the Shenandoah to the Allegany mountain . Lord Fairfax ...
... battles fought on the Co- hongoruton . * At the mouth of Antietam , a small creek on the Maryland * Cohongoruton is the ancient Indian name of the Potomac , from its junction with the Shenandoah to the Allegany mountain . Lord Fairfax ...
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... battle was over , and every Catawba held up a scalp but one . This was a disgrace not to be borne ; and he instantly gave chase to the fugitive , overtook him at the Susquehanna river , ( a distance little short of one hundred miles ...
... battle was over , and every Catawba held up a scalp but one . This was a disgrace not to be borne ; and he instantly gave chase to the fugitive , overtook him at the Susquehanna river , ( a distance little short of one hundred miles ...
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... battle , if it ever occurred , the author could obtain no traditional account . Tradition also relates that the ... battles contains all the traditionary infor- * As the author expects to give a detailed description of this extraordi ...
... battle , if it ever occurred , the author could obtain no traditional account . Tradition also relates that the ... battles contains all the traditionary infor- * As the author expects to give a detailed description of this extraordi ...
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... battle fought at the mouth of Opequon . The author has seen and conversed with several aged and respectable individuals , who well recollect seeing numerous war parties of the North- ern and Southern Indians passing and repassing ...
... battle fought at the mouth of Opequon . The author has seen and conversed with several aged and respectable individuals , who well recollect seeing numerous war parties of the North- ern and Southern Indians passing and repassing ...
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Страница 103 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Страница 103 - I appeal to any white man to say, if he ever entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if he ever came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said : " Logan is the friend of white men.
Страница 83 - Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
Страница 103 - Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it ; I have killed many ; I have fully glutted my vengeance ; for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan...
Страница 226 - I have often seen them get up early in the morning at this season, walk hastily out, and look anxiously to the woods and snuff the autumnal winds with the highest rapture, then return into the house and cast a quick and attentive look at the rifle, which was always suspended to a joist by a couple of buck horns, or little forks.
Страница 231 - They were half the length of the floor they were intended to make. The materials for the cabin were mostly prepared on the first day, and sometimes the foundation laid in the evening.
Страница 103 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
Страница 209 - ... with one of his feet he staggered the savage and knocked the tomahawk out of his hand. This failure on the part of the small Indian was reproved by an exclamation of contempt from the large one. In a moment the Indian caught up his tomahawk again, approached more cautiously brandishing his tomahawk, and making a number of feigned blows, in defiance and derision.
Страница 223 - It may be truly said that necessity is the mother of invention, for the whole of this work was made without the aid of a single nail or spike of Iron, and for this reason, such things were not to be had. In some places. less exposed, a single block-house' with a cabin or two
Страница 214 - The lean venison and the breast of wild turkeys we were taught to call bread. The flesh of the bear was denominated meat. This artifice did not succeed very well. After living in this way for some time we became sickly, the stomach seemed to be always empty and tormented with a sense of hunger.