A History of Virginia from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: With Biographical Sketches of All the Most Distinguished Characters that Occur in the Colonial, Revolutionary, Or Subsequent Period of Our HistoryJ. W. Campbell, 1813 - 310 من الصفحات |
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... chief discovered no apprehensions from the intrusion of the strangers , but invited them to sit down on his mat with him and his attendants . After this first interview frequent visits were made by the natives , chiefly for the purpose ...
... chief discovered no apprehensions from the intrusion of the strangers , but invited them to sit down on his mat with him and his attendants . After this first interview frequent visits were made by the natives , chiefly for the purpose ...
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... chief , who was long the most powerful rival , and most implacable foe , with whom the English had to contend , extended over that part of the country that lies south of the Potowmack betwixt the coast and the falls of the CHAPTER II. ...
... chief , who was long the most powerful rival , and most implacable foe , with whom the English had to contend , extended over that part of the country that lies south of the Potowmack betwixt the coast and the falls of the CHAPTER II. ...
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... chiefs , the calf of whose leg , he says , measured three quarters of a yard in circumference . Their complexion in infancy is white , but in riper age it becomes a • Trumbull estimates their population at sixteen thousand . See his ...
... chiefs , the calf of whose leg , he says , measured three quarters of a yard in circumference . Their complexion in infancy is white , but in riper age it becomes a • Trumbull estimates their population at sixteen thousand . See his ...
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... chief of this tribe amused the English with an account of a cop- per mine and pearl fishery , and a marvellous description of the source of the Roanoke , which he said gushed from a rock on the borders of a great ocean . The credulous ...
... chief of this tribe amused the English with an account of a cop- per mine and pearl fishery , and a marvellous description of the source of the Roanoke , which he said gushed from a rock on the borders of a great ocean . The credulous ...
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... chiefs , who had heard of the arrival of the English , began to testify their friendship by presents and by visiting the colony , accompanied by numbers of their sub- jects . The king of the island however , whose name was Wingina , did ...
... chiefs , who had heard of the arrival of the English , began to testify their friendship by presents and by visiting the colony , accompanied by numbers of their sub- jects . The king of the island however , whose name was Wingina , did ...
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