Biography and History of the Indians of North America;: Comprising a General Account of Them, and Details in the Lives of All the Most Distinguished Chiefs, and Others, who Have Been Noted, Among the Various Indian Nations Upon the Continent. Also, a History of Their Wars; Their Manners and Customs; and the Most Celebrated Speeches of Their Orators, from Their First Being Known to Europeans to the Present Time. Likewise Exhibiting an Analysis of the Most Distinguished, as Well as Absurd Authors, who Have Written Upon the Great Question of the First Peopling of America. : [Six Lines from Bryant]O.L. Perkins, 56 Cornhill, and Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1834 - Indians of North America - 540 pages |
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... arm . They had most of them long hosen up to their groins , close made ; and aboue their groins , to their waist , another ... arms ; these , therefore , left " their bows and arrows a quarter of a mile from our town . We gave them ...
... arm . They had most of them long hosen up to their groins , close made ; and aboue their groins , to their waist , another ... arms ; these , therefore , left " their bows and arrows a quarter of a mile from our town . We gave them ...
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... arms , legs and thighs , to keep heat in him . When they had made an end of their charming , one told him that his friends , the English , were come to see him . Having understanding left , but his sight was wholly gone , he asked , who ...
... arms , legs and thighs , to keep heat in him . When they had made an end of their charming , one told him that his friends , the English , were come to see him . Having understanding left , but his sight was wholly gone , he asked , who ...
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... arm broken by a shot , which is all the advantage claimed by the English . The Indians got into a swamp , and after some bravadoing on both sides , the parties separated . After assisting the settlers of Wessaguscus to leave the place ...
... arm broken by a shot , which is all the advantage claimed by the English . The Indians got into a swamp , and after some bravadoing on both sides , the parties separated . After assisting the settlers of Wessaguscus to leave the place ...
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... arms , up in the country , we came ( say they ) to a place where corn had been newly gathered , a house pulled down , and the people gone . A mile from hence , Nanepa- shemet , their king , in his life - time had lived.f His house was ...
... arms , up in the country , we came ( say they ) to a place where corn had been newly gathered , a house pulled down , and the people gone . A mile from hence , Nanepa- shemet , their king , in his life - time had lived.f His house was ...
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... arm for war about 3000 men , as the old Indians declare . They were in hostility very often with the Narragansitts ; but held amity , for the most part , with the Pawkunnawkutts . " Near the mouth of Charles River " used to be the ...
... arm for war about 3000 men , as the old Indians declare . They were in hostility very often with the Narragansitts ; but held amity , for the most part , with the Pawkunnawkutts . " Near the mouth of Charles River " used to be the ...
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