Thrilling Adventures Among the Indians: Comprising the Most Remarkable Personal Narratives of Events in the Early Indian Wars, as Well as of Incidents in the Recent Indian Hostilities in Mexico and Texas |
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Page 318 - Byrd. He came to him every night in his tent, and told him not to be afraid, they should not kill him. After many days...
Page 201 - Though not ill treated, yet the common prejudice Against Indians prevented any sympathy with him. This was shown at the death of his only child, when none of the people came near him. Shortly afterwards, he went to some of the inhabitants, and said to them, ' When white man's child die, Indian man be sorry — he help bury him.
Page 173 - But an evil day came upon us. Your forefathers crossed the great water, and landed on this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends and not enemies.
Page 129 - A party of Scottish Highlanders, in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, happened, in a winter journey, to encamp after nightfall in a dense clump of trees, whose dark tops and lofty stems, the growth of centuries, gave a solemnity to the scene that had strongly tended to excite the superstitious feelings of the Highlanders. The effect was heightened by the discovery of a tomb, which, with a natural taste often exhibited by' the Indians, had been placed in this secluded spot.
Page 147 - What's the matter there ? what's that fuss about ?' — he never answered, for he was dead, then, • poor fellow, and he never knew what killed him — 'his head had been cut in, in his sleep ; the other groaned a little as he died. The Delawares (we had four with us) were sleeping at that fire, and they sprang up as the TIamaths charged them.
Page 185 - But he refused : time was precious to him who had to work hard for every thing he possessed, and the Indian repeated his entreaties in vain. The poor fellow looked grieved and disappointed, but a moment after a sudden thought struck him — he hit on an expedient which none but an Indian hunter would have thought of. Mrs. M'Dougal had a young child, which the Indian's quick eye had not failed to notice ; and finding that his eloquence was completely thrown away upon the parents, he approached the...
Page 58 - Show them how unreasonable and unmanly a thing it is to take fire at every little provocation ; how honourable and glorious to forgive an injury ; how much like God, and like the best of men. Let them know what Solomon would inform, that the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit...
Page 234 - The shirt or coat, when girted round the waist, reaches to the middle of the thigh, and the mittens are sewed to the sleeves, or are suspended by strings from the shoulders. A ruff or tippet surrounds the neck, and the skin of the head of the deer forms a curious kind of cap. A robe, made of several deer or fawn skins sewed together, covers the whole.
Page 309 - From her account of the moons past since her elopement, it appeared that she had been near seven months without seeing a human face ; during all which time she had supported herself very well by snaring partridges, rabbits, and squirrels ; she had also killed two or three beavers, and some porcupines.
Page 62 - Skenandoa was present at a treaty made in Albany. At night he was excessively drunk, and in the morning found himself in the street, stripped of all his ornaments and every article of clothing. His pride revolted at his self-degradation, and he resolved that he would never again deliver himself over to the power of strong water* and displayed all the peculiar dignity of an Indian chief.