 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 258 páginas
...seen several such pieces in the hands of savages; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given to them to...some families they have been kept for more than fifty years; in others, they have descended from time out of mind — being cherished as domestic gods. .... | |
 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 262 páginas
...seen several such pieces in the hands of savages; and since .they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given to them to...pieces of copper wrapped up with their most precious article.«. In some families they have been kept for more than fifty years; in others, they have descended... | |
 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 258 páginas
...superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given to thejn to promote their happijiess by the gods who dwell beneath the water. For this...pieces of copper wrapped up with their most precious article*. In some families they have been kept for more than fifty years; in others, they have descended... | |
 | 1853 - 676 páginas
...masses of copper are found, and the savages, being very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities. For this reason they preserve these pieces of copper, wrapped up with thoir most precious articles. In some families they have boon kept for more than fifty years ; in others... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 432 páginas
...in 1672, supposed to be the work of Allouez and Marquette, bears the name of Lac Tracy ou Superiewr. Of this map, Dablon says : " It was got up by two...some families they have been kept for more than fifty • Bock of Copper— Chaquamagon Bay. years ; in others, they have descended from time out of mind,... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 418 páginas
...Foster and "Whitney's Eeport of th$ Lake Superior Region," are the following observations : " Wh6n it is considered that these men were not engineers,...copper, wrapped up with their most precious articles. IB some families they have been kept for more than fifty Eock of Copper — Chaquamagon Bay. years... | |
 | John Wells Foster - 1874 - 434 páginas
...they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given them to promote their happiness by the gods that dwell beneath the water. For this reason they preserve these pieces of copper wrapped up with the most precious articles. In some families they have been kept more than fifty years ; in others... | |
 | Mansfield Tracy Walworth - 1877 - 480 páginas
...seen several such pieces in the hands of savages, and since they are very superstitious they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given to them to...some families they have been kept for more than fifty years ; in others they have descended from time out of mind, being cherished as domestic gods." Father... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott, Henry Carvill Lewis - 1881 - 580 páginas
...seen several such pieces in the hands of savages ; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given to them to...some families they have been kept for more than fifty years ; in others, they have descended from time out of mind — being cherished as domestic gods."... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - 1881 - 584 páginas
...seen several such pieces in the hands of savages ; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given to them to...some families they have been kept for more than fifty years ; in others, they have descended from time out of mind — being cherished as domestic gods."... | |
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... them as divinities, or as presents given to them to promote their happiness, by the gods who dwell beneath the water. For this reason, they preserve these pieces of copper, wrapped up with their most precious articles. In some families they have been... 
