| Joseph Pritts - 1841 - 550 páginas
...generally to be good wheat land, chiefly second and third rate, intermixed with some rich bottoms. The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...He had some ashes on a piece of bark, in which he fre-- qnently dipped his fingers, in order to take the firmer hold, and so he went on, as if he had... | |
| James Wimer - 1841 - 788 páginas
...generally to be good wheat land, chiefly second and third rate, intermixed with some rich bottoms. The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...my head. He had some ashes on a piece of bark, in wljich he frequently dipped his fingers, in order to take the firmer hold, and so he went on, as if... | |
| Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 774 páginas
...miles above the forks, which was called Tullihas, inhabited by Dclawares, Caiighnewagas and Mohicans. The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...began to pull the hair out of my head. He had some ashe? on a piece of bark, in which he frequently dipped his fingers, in order to take the firmer hold,... | |
| Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 742 páginas
...miles above the forks, which was called Tullihas, inhabited by Delawares, Canghnewagas and Mohicans. The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a number of Indiana collected about me, and one of them began to pull the hair out of my head. He had some ashes... | |
| James Wickes Taylor - 1854 - 604 páginas
...manner of his adoption by the Indians and other ceremonies, which we prefer to give in his own words : " The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...one of them began to pull the hair out of my head. lie had some ashes on a piece of bark, in which he frequently dipped his fingers in order to take the... | |
| Charles Hallowell Mitchener - 1876 - 376 páginas
...the American colonies a general by whose wisdom England also lost her possessions, in the colonies. CHAPTER III. CAPTIVITY OF COLONEL JAMES SMITH, IN...a piece of bark, in which he frequently dipped his lingers, in order to take the tinner hold, and so he went on, as if he had been plucking a turkey,... | |
| Augustus Lynch Mason - 1884 - 1056 páginas
...took him with them to a town on the Muskingum river. He describes the novel reception given him. " On my arrival at the aforesaid town, a number of Indians...been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair out of my head, except a small spot three or four inches square on my crown ; this they cut off with... | |
| Francis Samuel Drake - 1885 - 506 páginas
...is their mode of adoption : " The day after my arrival at Tullihas, an Indian town on the Muskingum, a number of Indians collected about me, and one of them began to pull the hair out of my head. He went on as if he had been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair out except a small tuft three... | |
| 1887 - 738 páginas
...member of the legislature. In his "Narrative," speaking of his being taken to TuHnllas, Colonel Smith says: '•The day after my arrival at the aforesaid...he frequently dipped his fingers, in order to take a firmer hold, and so he went on as if he had been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair clean... | |
| Henry Howe - 1891 - 670 páginas
...manner of his adoption by the Indians and other ceremonies, which we prefer to give in his own words: "The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...me, and one of them began to pull the hair out of iny head. He had some ashes on a piece of bark, in which he frequently dipped his fingers in order... | |
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