Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: AmericanJ.B. Lippincott, 1893 - 328 páginas |
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... savages had steel axes , obtained from the French , and , with their aid , in two hours a strong defensive work , constructed of the felled trunks , was built , a half - circle in form , with the river at its two ends . This was the ...
... savages had steel axes , obtained from the French , and , with their aid , in two hours a strong defensive work , constructed of the felled trunks , was built , a half - circle in form , with the river at its two ends . This was the ...
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... savages . " You will see fire and smoke rise into the air . " Champlain looked , but saw nothing . The medicine - man by this time had worked him- self into convulsions . He called loudly upon the spirit in an unknown language , and was ...
... savages . " You will see fire and smoke rise into the air . " Champlain looked , but saw nothing . The medicine - man by this time had worked him- self into convulsions . He called loudly upon the spirit in an unknown language , and was ...
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... savages told their interested auditors of another lake , thickly studded with islands , beyond that on which they now were ; and still beyond a rocky port- age over which they hoped to carry their canoes , and a great river which flowed ...
... savages told their interested auditors of another lake , thickly studded with islands , beyond that on which they now were ; and still beyond a rocky port- age over which they hoped to carry their canoes , and a great river which flowed ...
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... savages of these woods were now first to learn the destructive power of that weapon , for which in the years to come they would them- selves discard the antiquated bow . The Iroquois much outnumbered their foes . There were some two hur ...
... savages of these woods were now first to learn the destructive power of that weapon , for which in the years to come they would them- selves discard the antiquated bow . The Iroquois much outnumbered their foes . There were some two hur ...
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... savages through that dense and tangled forest . In a short time they led the laboring whites to a point where the wood- land grew thinner , and within hearing of the wild war - whoops of the combatants . Soon they emerged into a partial ...
... savages through that dense and tangled forest . In a short time they led the laboring whites to a point where the wood- land grew thinner , and within hearing of the wild war - whoops of the combatants . Soon they emerged into a partial ...
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Aaron Burr adventures alarm American appeared armed army battle Blennerhasset boat Boston British bullets Burr camp canoes Captain captured Champe Champlain Chattanooga Colonel Colonel Sheppard command Confederate Cornell craft crew danger daring deck enemy engine England enterprise escape eyes fell filled fire flames flight force forest French frigate fugitives garrison gave governor Green Mountain boys Greenland guns hands haste hope horse hour hundred Indians iron-clad Iroquois island journey ketch knew lake land Leif Lexington men LIBBY PRISON looked Lord Rawdon Marietta Marion Merrimac miles militia minutes Morse night officers onward party passed patriot Pedee River peril Phips prisoners proved pursuers pursuit Putnam quickly reached river road sail savages seemed sent sentinel ship shore shot side Simon Girty speed stood story stream swamp told took track train Tripoli troops vessel Vineland Washington William Phips wire wood
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Página 94 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Página 232 - Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads,— The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds.
Página 95 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 95 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Página 88 - Drum, drum, I say,' and turning to his excellency, said, 'If I am interrupted again I will make the sun shine through you in a moment.
Página 231 - Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass.
Página 94 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging.
Página 100 - You, in former days, set a silver basin before us, wherein there was the leg of a beaver, and desired all the nations to come and eat of it; to eat in peace and plenty, and not to be churlish to one another: and that if any such person should be found to be a disturber, I here lay down by the edge of the dish a rod, which you must scourge them...
Página 100 - But the Great Being above allowed it to be a place of residence for us ; so, fathers, I desire you to withdraw, as I have done our brothers the English ; for I will keep you at arm's length.
Página 153 - Two darling sons and a brother have I lost by savage hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses, and abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I been a companion for owls, separated from the cheerful society of men, scorched by the summer's sun, and pinched by the winter's cold — an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness.