The Indian Races of North and South America: Comprising an Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; a Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; the History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and National CharacterHurlbut, Kellogg & Company, American Subscription Publishing House, 1860 - 720 páginas |
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... present you the matters of fact , it is fit to offer to your view the stage whereon they were acted ; for , as geography without history seemeth a carcass without motion , so history without geogra- phy wandereth as a vagrant , without ...
... present you the matters of fact , it is fit to offer to your view the stage whereon they were acted ; for , as geography without history seemeth a carcass without motion , so history without geogra- phy wandereth as a vagrant , without ...
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... Present Condition of the Six Nations , ... - 361 370 PONTIAC'S WAR . CHAPTER I. French Influence over the Indians.- British Occupation of the Western Posts.- Pontiac , and his Plans for exterminating the English , .. CHAPTER II . Siege ...
... Present Condition of the Six Nations , ... - 361 370 PONTIAC'S WAR . CHAPTER I. French Influence over the Indians.- British Occupation of the Western Posts.- Pontiac , and his Plans for exterminating the English , .. CHAPTER II . Siege ...
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... Present 467 CHAPTER IV . The Removal of the Cherokees west of the Mississippi . Location and Condition of the other Tribes of the Southern States ,. - NORTHERN RACES . - CHAPTER I. The Esquimaux ; their Manners and Personal Appearance ...
... Present 467 CHAPTER IV . The Removal of the Cherokees west of the Mississippi . Location and Condition of the other Tribes of the Southern States ,. - NORTHERN RACES . - CHAPTER I. The Esquimaux ; their Manners and Personal Appearance ...
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... Present Condition of the Arawaks . -Other Tribes of the Interior . - General Description , .................. . - - THE ABORIGINES OF PERU . - Reduction of CHAPTER I. Physical Peculiarities of the Quichuas , Aymaras , Atacamas , and ...
... Present Condition of the Arawaks . -Other Tribes of the Interior . - General Description , .................. . - - THE ABORIGINES OF PERU . - Reduction of CHAPTER I. Physical Peculiarities of the Quichuas , Aymaras , Atacamas , and ...
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... Present Con- dition of the Peruvian Indians , .. - - - - - THE ARAUCANIAN RACE . ....... 641 CHAPTER I. Their Location , Appearance , & c.- Purchas ' Description of Chili.— Division of the Tribes.- Peruvian Conquests . - Agriculture ...
... Present Con- dition of the Peruvian Indians , .. - - - - - THE ARAUCANIAN RACE . ....... 641 CHAPTER I. Their Location , Appearance , & c.- Purchas ' Description of Chili.— Division of the Tribes.- Peruvian Conquests . - Agriculture ...
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adventurers American appearance Araucanians Arawaks arms army arrival arrows Atahuallpa attack Attakullakulla battle Black-Hawk body Brant brought cacique canoes Captain captive Caupolican CHAPTER Cherokees chief Church coast Colonel colonists colony command commenced Cortez Creeks Cuzco death destroyed dians early encampment enemy engaged English European expedition favor fell fire Florida force French friendly garrison gold Guacanagari hands horses hostile hundred Inca Indians inhabitants intercourse Iroquois island Jamestown killed king lake land Mandans Mohawk Mohegans Montezuma mountains murder Narragansetts nation natives Opechancanough party peace Pequots Peru Peruvian Philip Pizarro plunder Plymouth Pocahontas portion possession Powhatan present principal prisoners PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR race river rude sachem savages says Seminoles sent settlement settlers skins Smith Spaniards Spanish spirit stone taken thousand tion took Toqui town treaty tribes troops Tumbez vessels village warriors Werowocomoco western whites whole wild women YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Página 335 - 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.
Página 467 - Scattered were they, like flakes of snow, when the wind from the north-east Strikes aslant through the fogs that darken the Banks of Newfoundland.
Página 179 - Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death...
Página 335 - 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 never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan ? — Not one...
Página 45 - Among the high rank grass that sweeps his sides, The hollow beating of his footstep seems A sacrilegious sound. I think of those Upon whose rest he tramples. Are they here — The dead of other days, — and did the dust Of these fair solitudes once stir with life, And burn with passion ? Let the mighty mounds, That overlook the rivers, or that rise In the dim forest, crowded with old oaks, Answer.
Página 315 - I do not sleep; I have my eyes open; and the sun, which enlightens me, discovers to me a great captain at the head of a company of soldiers, who speaks as if he were dreaming.
Página 191 - Having reaccommodated themselves, they solemnly invited him to their lodgings, where he was no sooner within the house, but all these Nymphes more tormented him then ever, with crowding, pressing, and hanging about him, most tediously crying, Love you not me?
Página 614 - It was conducted over pathless sierras buried in snow; galleries were cut for leagues through the living rock; rivers were crossed by means of bridges that swung suspended in the air; precipices were scaled by stairways hewn out of the native bed; ravines of hideous depth were filled up with solid masonry...
Página 176 - Having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the conclusion was, two great stones were brought before Powhatan : then as many as could...
Página 206 - After a modest salutation, without any word, she turned about, obscured her face as not seeming well contented; and in that humour, her husband, with divers others, we all left her two or three hours, repenting myself to have writ she could speak English.