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... tribe , which measured twenty inches in length , and was caught by him at his mill - dam , into a small well , where it remained twelve years , became quite tame and familiar , so as to feed from the hand , and was visited by many ...
... tribe , which measured twenty inches in length , and was caught by him at his mill - dam , into a small well , where it remained twelve years , became quite tame and familiar , so as to feed from the hand , and was visited by many ...
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... tribe of Indians ( the Montagnards ) will be reduced to a state of positive starvation , for upon the Hudson's Bay Company they have hitherto been , and are now dependent for their ammunition , guns , and other means by which they ...
... tribe of Indians ( the Montagnards ) will be reduced to a state of positive starvation , for upon the Hudson's Bay Company they have hitherto been , and are now dependent for their ammunition , guns , and other means by which they ...
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... tribes of Indians amongst whom I have travelled , I selected the Chinooks , one of the tribes most remote from this part of the continent , and whose manners and customs are so much at variance with our own , as to render some notice of ...
... tribes of Indians amongst whom I have travelled , I selected the Chinooks , one of the tribes most remote from this part of the continent , and whose manners and customs are so much at variance with our own , as to render some notice of ...
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... tribe inhabiting the tract of country at the mouth of the Columbia river . Residing among the Flat - Heads , I remained from the ... tribes so greatly diminished that the influence which Casenov owed to the number of his followers has ...
... tribe inhabiting the tract of country at the mouth of the Columbia river . Residing among the Flat - Heads , I remained from the ... tribes so greatly diminished that the influence which Casenov owed to the number of his followers has ...
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... tribe chiefly by means of the superstitious dread in which they hold him . This influence was wielded with unflinching ... tribes . The process is as follows : -The Indian mothers all carry their infants strapped to a piece of board ...
... tribe chiefly by means of the superstitious dread in which they hold him . This influence was wielded with unflinching ... tribes . The process is as follows : -The Indian mothers all carry their infants strapped to a piece of board ...
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Page 205 - So careful of the type?' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries "A thousand types are gone. I care for nothing; all shall go. "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath; I know no more.
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Page 254 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
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Page 105 - Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise, "But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days ! "Let no bell toll! — lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, "Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth. "To friends above, from...
Page 205 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 253 - Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their ears that idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a vanity, by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon."§...
Page 205 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed, And love Creation's final law — Tho...