| Richard C. Sinopoli - 1996 - 456 páginas
...wicked men, and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat. We took pity on them, granted their request and they sat down amongst...us. We gave them corn and meat. They gave us poison (spiritous liquor) in return. The white people had now found our country. Tidings were carried back... | |
| Kent Nerburn - 2010 - 240 páginas
...wicked men, and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat. We took pity on them, granted their request, and they sat down amongst...us. We gave them corn and meat. They gave us poison [rum] in return. The white people, brother, had now found our country. Tidings were carried back and... | |
| Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 páginas
...religion. . . . We took pity on them . . . and they sat down among us.... The white people, brothers, had now found our country. Tidings were carried back and more came among us. Yet we did not fear them. We took them to befriends. They called us brothers. We believed... | |
| Ernest Thompson Seton - 2005 - 184 páginas
...of wicked men, and come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat; we took pity on them, granted their request, and they sat down amongst...them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return. [Spirituous liquor is alluded to, it is supposed.] The White people had now found our country, tidings... | |
| William Marder - 2005 - 256 páginas
...this island (Turtle Island). Their numbers were small. We took pity on them, and they sat down among us. We gave them corn and meat. They gave us poison in return."324 By the mid 1800s the European missionaries were destined to carry their brand of civilization... | |
| Philip Tome - 2006 - 198 páginas
...religions. They asked for a small seat; we took pity on them granted their request, and they sat down among us; we gave them corn and meat; they gave us poison...country, tidings were carried back, and more came among us, yet we did not fear them, we took them to be friends; they called us brothers; we believed... | |
| 2006 - 133 páginas
...of wicked men, and come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat; we took pity on them, granted their request, and they sat down amongst...them corn and meat; they gave us poison in return. [Spirituous liquor is alluded to, it is supposed.] The White people had now found our country, tidings... | |
| Lorrie Goldensohn - 2006 - 460 páginas
...of wicked men, and come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat. We took pity on them, granted their request, and they sat down amongst...them corn and meat. They gave us poison in return [spirituous liquor). The white people had now found our country. Tidings were carried back, and more... | |
| Alfred A. Cave - 2006 - 345 páginas
...and had come here to enjoy their own religion. They asked for a small seat; we took pity on them and granted their request and they sat down amongst us....corn and meat, they gave us poison in return." The outcome was one that the Indians, well meaning and innocent, could not have foreseen. "At length their... | |
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