The Indian in His Wigwam, Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America: From Original Notes and ManuscriptsDerby & Hewson, 1848 - 416 من الصفحات |
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Abenakies adjective Algonquin American ancient animal appears arrows band banks birds body brother called Canada canoes Cartier character Chemanitou chief Chippewa Choctaws civil corn dance denote Donnacona early earth feet fire fish forest forms French head Hochelaga hunter hunting Indian families inflections inhabited Iroquois island killed Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Superior land language latter leagues lived lodge look manner Mexico Michilimackinac miles Mississippi Missouri Monedo mother mountain nation native night object observed Odjibwa Ohio passed person pieces plain present pronoun race reached river rock settlement Shawnees Shingebiss shore Sioux songs soon spirit spot stone stream term territory things Thou thought tion told took tradition trees tribes tshe tumulus Uncas valley verb village wabeno wampum warrior Ween wild wood word Wyandots young
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الصفحة 226 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill : For Thou art with me ; and Thy rod And staff me comfort still.
الصفحة 243 - Go, my brethren, I untie your bonds, and send you home again, though our nations be at war. The French governor has made me commit so black an action, that I shall never be easy after it, till the Five Nations shall have taken full revenge.
الصفحة 352 - ... that Addison was first seduced to excess by the manumission which he obtained from the servile timidity of his sober hours. He that feels oppression from the presence of those to whom he knows himself superior will desire to set loose his powers of conversation ; and who that ever asked succours from Bacchus was able to preserve himself from being enslaved by his auxiliary...
الصفحة 139 - On that day when our heroes lay low, I fought by their side, and thought ere I died, Just vengeance to take on the foe, Just vengeance to take on the foe. On that day, when...
الصفحة 373 - From the view which I have taken of the subject, I am satisfied that, in the discharge of these important duties, in regard to both the parties alluded to, the United States will have to encounter no conflicting interests with either : on the contrary, that the removal of the tribes from the...
الصفحة 225 - The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want. He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by.
الصفحة 138 - Mauvais river, to its connecting portage with the Namakagon branch of the St. Croix. On crossing the summit, they embarked in their small and light war canoes on their descent westward. This portion of the route was passed with the utmost caution. They were now rapidly approaching the enemy's borders, and every sign was regarded with deep attention. They were seven days from the time they first reached the waters of the St. Croix, until they found the enemy. They went but a short distance each day....
الصفحة 77 - For a while he could see no change in the face of the country. Forests, and hills, and valleys, and streams had the same looks which they wore in his native place. There was snow on the ground when he set out, and it was sometimes seen to be piled and matted on the thick trees and bushes.
الصفحة 397 - ... stooles or chaires, it being as rare to see an Indian sit on a stoole at home, as it is strange to see an English man sit on his heels abroad.
الصفحة 200 - ... since been collected, to the depth of a man's height. They believe also, that in ancient times their ancestors lived till their feet were worn out with walking, and their throats with eating. They describe a deluge, when the waters spread over the whole earth, except the highest mountains, on the tops of which they preserved themselves.