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, Scranton & Company, 1864 - 760 Seiten |
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adventurers American appearance Araucanians Arawaks arms army arrival Atahuallpa attack Attakullakulla battle Black-Hawk body Brant brought cacique camp 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 escape European expedition favor fell fire Florida force Fort Ridgely French friendly garrison Guacanagari hands horses hostile hundred Inca Indians inhabitants Iroquois island Jamestown killed king Lake land LENOX AND TILDEN Mandans massacre miles Mohawk Mohegans Montezuma mountains murdered Narragansetts nation natives Opechancanough party peace Pequots Peru Peruvian Philip Pizarro plunder Plymouth Pocahontas portion Powhatan present prisoners race river sachem savages says Seminoles sent settlement settlers Smith Spaniards Spanish spirit stone taken thousand tion took Toqui town treaty tribes troops vessels village warlike warriors Werowocomoco western whites whole wild women wounded YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 179 - Powhatan : then as many as could laid hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beat out his brains, 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 190 - When you send again, I entreat you rather send but thirty carpenters, husbandmen, gardeners, fishermen, blacksmiths, masons, and diggers up of trees...
Seite 175 - ... and a rattle in his hand. With most strange gestures and passions, he began his invocation, and environed the fire with a circle of...
Seite 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?
Seite 608 - 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 326 - WHEN the four Indian kings were in this country, about a twelvemonth ago, I often mixed with the rabble and followed them a whole day together, being wonderfully struck with the sight of every^ thing that is new or uncommon. I have, since their departure, employed a friend to make many inquiries of their landlord the upholsterer, relating to their manners and conversation,, as also concerning the remarks which they made in this country: for, next to the...