The Wigwam and the War-path; Or, Tales of the Red IndiansBlackie & Son, 1892 - 352 páginas |
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able adventure appeared arms arrived attack band began better blood body brave brought called captives carried chief cloth elegant companions Crown 8vo danger dead death enemy English escape eyes fear fell fight fire followed formed French friends gave girl give ground guns hand head heard heart hope horses hundred Hunter hunting Illustrations Indians interest John Johnston Kansas killed kind learned leave lived looked lost master means mind morning nature never night once Osages party passed peace poor present prisoners reach remained rest river savage scalps seemed shot showed side soon spirit squaw story suffered taken tell thought told tomahawk took town trader treated tribe turned village warriors whole woods wounded young
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Página 44 - Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
Página 62 - ... to go. Then they called him with exceeding great vehemency, all of them, one and another. After a little while he turned in, staggering as he went, with his arms stretched out, in either hand a gun.
Página 43 - And now down I must sit in the snow, by a little fire, and a few boughs behind me, with my sick child in my lap, and calling much for water, being now, through the wound, fallen into a violent fever ; my own wound also growing so stiff, that I could scarce sit down or rise up, yet so it must be, that I must sit all this cold, winter night upon the cold snowy ground, with my sick child in my arms, looking that every hour would be .the last of its life, and having no Christian friend near me, either...
Página 44 - ... me carry it out to another wigwam (I suppose because they would not be troubled with such spectacles) whither I went with a very heavy heart, and down I sat with the picture of death in my lap. About two hours in the night, my sweet babe like a lamb, departed this life, on Feb. 18, 1676, it being about six years and five months old.
Página 42 - After this it quickly began to snow, and when night came on they stopped; and now down I must sit in the snow by a little fire, and a few boughs behind me, with my sick child in my lap and calling much for water, being now (through the wound) fallen into a violent fever. My own wound also growing so stiff that I could scarce sit down or rise up, yet so it must be, that I must sit all this cold winter night, upon the cold snowy ground, with my sick child in my arms, looking that every hour would be...
Página 45 - By their noise and whooping they signified how many they had destroyed (which was at that time twentythree). Those that were with us at home, were gathered together as soon as they heard the...
Página 50 - I remember with shame, how formerly, when I had taken two or three pipes, I was presently ready for another, such a bewitching thing it is...
Página 49 - I could not but be amazed at the numerous crew of Pagans that were on the bank on the other side. When I came ashore, they gathered all about me, I sitting alone in the midst: I observed they asked one another questions, and laughed, and rejoiced over their gains and victories. Then my heart began to fail and I fell a weeping; which was the first time to my remembrance that I wept before them...
Página 65 - Lord preserved us in safety that night, and raised us up again in the morning, and carried us along, that before noon we came to Concord. Now was I full of joy, and yet not without sorrow: joy, to see such a lovely sight, so many Christians together, and some of them my neighbors.
Página 55 - ... before) that whatsoever the Indians told me respecting him was vanity and lies. Some of them told me, he was dead, and they had killed him: some said he was married again, and that the...