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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... gun - barrels out of the fire . The proposal , and his method of address , appeared so exceedingly bold and uncommon , that his request was grant- ed . Then suddenly seizing one end of the red - hot barrel , and brandish- ing it from ...
... gun - barrels out of the fire . The proposal , and his method of address , appeared so exceedingly bold and uncommon , that his request was grant- ed . Then suddenly seizing one end of the red - hot barrel , and brandish- ing it from ...
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... guns ; this so frightened the women and children , that they ran away , and would not return until the interpreter assured them that they need not fear ; and when Massasoit arrived , they saluted him by a discharge , at which he was ...
... guns ; this so frightened the women and children , that they ran away , and would not return until the interpreter assured them that they need not fear ; and when Massasoit arrived , they saluted him by a discharge , at which he was ...
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... guns were fired " at random , " to the great terror of all but Squanto and Tokamahamon , " who , though they knew not our end in coming , yet assured them [ so frightened ] of our honesty , [ and ] that we would not hurt them . " The ...
... guns were fired " at random , " to the great terror of all but Squanto and Tokamahamon , " who , though they knew not our end in coming , yet assured them [ so frightened ] of our honesty , [ and ] that we would not hurt them . " The ...
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... guns were yet feared by the Indians . Nevertheless , the historians would have us understand that Standish would ... gun , or needing the same . " Stan- dish now informed them of the plot , which was the first intimation , it appears ...
... guns were yet feared by the Indians . Nevertheless , the historians would have us understand that Standish would ... gun , or needing the same . " Stan- dish now informed them of the plot , which was the first intimation , it appears ...
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... guns , without effecting their object . ** We hear no more of him until 1643 , when , at a court held in Boston , " Cutshamekin and Squaw - Sachem , Masconomo , Nashacowam and Wassa- magin , tt two sachems near the great hill to the ...
... guns , without effecting their object . ** We hear no more of him until 1643 , when , at a court held in Boston , " Cutshamekin and Squaw - Sachem , Masconomo , Nashacowam and Wassa- magin , tt two sachems near the great hill to the ...
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