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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... forces , appointed to occupy Asia and Europe : And so a most grievous war was carried on ; in which the Athenians , with the common consent of the Greeks , opposed themselves , and they became the conquerors . But that Atlantic island ...
... forces , appointed to occupy Asia and Europe : And so a most grievous war was carried on ; in which the Athenians , with the common consent of the Greeks , opposed themselves , and they became the conquerors . But that Atlantic island ...
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... force , " carried him to France , where he soon after died . Not- withstanding , Cartier was in the country five years after , where he found Agona , the successor of Donacona , and exchanged presents with him , probably reconciling him ...
... force , " carried him to France , where he soon after died . Not- withstanding , Cartier was in the country five years after , where he found Agona , the successor of Donacona , and exchanged presents with him , probably reconciling him ...
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... wrong in calling him Henry Harley . Capt . Smith's Gen. Hist . N. Eng . Ibid . Perhaps not the Capt . Harlow before mentioned , though Prince thinks Gorges means him . force , ] with some 29 * others by a. 1 * CHAP. 1.] ...
... wrong in calling him Henry Harley . Capt . Smith's Gen. Hist . N. Eng . Ibid . Perhaps not the Capt . Harlow before mentioned , though Prince thinks Gorges means him . force , ] with some 29 * others by a. 1 * CHAP. 1.] ...
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... force , ] with some 29 * others by a ship of London that endeavored to sell them for slaves in Spaine , but being understood that they were Americans , and being found to be unapt for their uses , they would not meddle with them , this ...
... force , ] with some 29 * others by a ship of London that endeavored to sell them for slaves in Spaine , but being understood that they were Americans , and being found to be unapt for their uses , they would not meddle with them , this ...
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... force under the spirited Capt . Standish , ended it with very little bloodshed . Massasoit expected a serious contest ; and , as usual on such occasions , changed his name , and was ever after known by the name of Owsamequin . or ...
... force under the spirited Capt . Standish , ended it with very little bloodshed . Massasoit expected a serious contest ; and , as usual on such occasions , changed his name , and was ever after known by the name of Owsamequin . or ...
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