Historical Notes Respecting the Indians of North America: With Remarks on the Attempts Made to Convert and Civilize Them |
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... soon as the fever abated , he set out with his wife to Cumberland- house , having been previously reduced to feed on the bits of skin and offal which remained about their encampment . Even this miserable fare was exhausted , and they ...
... soon as the fever abated , he set out with his wife to Cumberland- house , having been previously reduced to feed on the bits of skin and offal which remained about their encampment . Even this miserable fare was exhausted , and they ...
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... soon afterwards went to some of his neighbours , and thus addressed them : " When the white man's child dies , Indian man is sorry he helps to bury him . When my child dies , no one speaks to me : I make his grave alone . I cannot live ...
... soon afterwards went to some of his neighbours , and thus addressed them : " When the white man's child dies , Indian man is sorry he helps to bury him . When my child dies , no one speaks to me : I make his grave alone . I cannot live ...
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... soon as the furs and beaver begin to grow scarce among the savages , the Europeans retire , and not one is to be found . The savages reproached us with it once in the presence of the Count de Fron- tenac , in full council , at Three ...
... soon as the furs and beaver begin to grow scarce among the savages , the Europeans retire , and not one is to be found . The savages reproached us with it once in the presence of the Count de Fron- tenac , in full council , at Three ...
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... soon as Brebeuf was informed of what was going on , he went to the Iroquois , in order to afford him every consolation , and to extend to him the benefit of religious instruction , and the rites of the church . He was permitted to ...
... soon as Brebeuf was informed of what was going on , he went to the Iroquois , in order to afford him every consolation , and to extend to him the benefit of religious instruction , and the rites of the church . He was permitted to ...
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... soon became accustomed ; and , in the course of the numerous and bloody campaigns which succeeded each other , year after year , the Iroquois on the one hand , and the French with their Indian allies on the other , perpetrated in every ...
... soon became accustomed ; and , in the course of the numerous and bloody campaigns which succeeded each other , year after year , the Iroquois on the one hand , and the French with their Indian allies on the other , perpetrated in every ...
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Page 347 - I had even thought to have lived with you, but for the injuries of one man. Colonel Cresap, the last Spring, in cold blood and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. 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 harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 321 - We have had some experience of it ; several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but, when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, nor kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally...
Page 322 - We are, however, not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it: and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Page 139 - Justice gives sentence many times On one man for another's crimes. Our brethren of New England use Choice malefactors to excuse, And hang the guiltless in their stead, • Of whom the churches have less need...
Page 240 - ... to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 346 - 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 the white men.
Page 106 - 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...
Page 346 - He accordingly signalized himself in the war which ensued. In the autumn of the same year a decisive battle was fought at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, between the collected forces of the Shawanese, Mingoes, and Delawares, and a detachment of the Virginia Militia.
Page 321 - But you, who are wise, must know that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will 65 therefore not take it amiss if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges...
Page 115 - I never begged any thing of the state, or any, and it is my want of abilitie and her exceeding desert, your birth...