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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... joined with the tyranny of prejudice ! We see these animals ; it is agreed that God has had the power to place them where they are ; yet it is not agreed that he has so placed them . The same persons who readily admit that the beavers ...
... joined with the tyranny of prejudice ! We see these animals ; it is agreed that God has had the power to place them where they are ; yet it is not agreed that he has so placed them . The same persons who readily admit that the beavers ...
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... joined hand in hand , singing and dancing before the shallop ; * the men also showing all the kindness they could , Iyanough himself taking a bracelet from about his neck , and hanging it about one of us . " They were not able to get ...
... joined hand in hand , singing and dancing before the shallop ; * the men also showing all the kindness they could , Iyanough himself taking a bracelet from about his neck , and hanging it about one of us . " They were not able to get ...
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... joined in the war , he was at first fired upon , though afterwards , when two additional heads were brought , they were received . Massasoit had several places of residence , but the principal was Mount Hope , or Pokanoket . The English ...
... joined in the war , he was at first fired upon , though afterwards , when two additional heads were brought , they were received . Massasoit had several places of residence , but the principal was Mount Hope , or Pokanoket . The English ...
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... joined secrecy of his intended massacre . But it seems from Winslow's Relation , that the Indians got word of it , or mistrusted his design ; prob- ably some of the Wessaguscus men warned them of it , who did not believe there was any ...
... joined secrecy of his intended massacre . But it seems from Winslow's Relation , that the Indians got word of it , or mistrusted his design ; prob- ably some of the Wessaguscus men warned them of it , who did not believe there was any ...
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... Joined by some of Mr. Weston's men , Standish discovered a few Indians , and pursued them . Standish gained a hill which the Indians also strove to occupy , and who , after shooting a few arrows , fled . " Whereupon Hob- bamock cast off ...
... Joined by some of Mr. Weston's men , Standish discovered a few Indians , and pursued them . Standish gained a hill which the Indians also strove to occupy , and who , after shooting a few arrows , fled . " Whereupon Hob- bamock cast off ...
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