Historical Notes Respecting the Indians of North America: With Remarks on the Attempts Made to Convert and Civilize ThemA. Constable and Company, 1825 - 408 páginas |
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... ADOPTED BY THE FRENCH IN IMITATING AND RETALIATING THE BARBARITIES OF THE INDIANS CHAPTER IV . TREACHEROUS CONDUCT OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT WITH REGARD TO THE INDIAN NATIONS - ABSURD ACCOUNTS OF THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES RELATIVE TO THEIR ...
... ADOPTED BY THE FRENCH IN IMITATING AND RETALIATING THE BARBARITIES OF THE INDIANS CHAPTER IV . TREACHEROUS CONDUCT OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT WITH REGARD TO THE INDIAN NATIONS - ABSURD ACCOUNTS OF THE JESUIT MISSIONARIES RELATIVE TO THEIR ...
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... adopted with respect to the civilization of that people was not calculated to effect the object which was expected . Monsieur de Champlain , the founder of Quebec , who had been deputed to command in New France , as lieutenant to the ...
... adopted with respect to the civilization of that people was not calculated to effect the object which was expected . Monsieur de Champlain , the founder of Quebec , who had been deputed to command in New France , as lieutenant to the ...
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... adopted from the Indians . in their neighbourhood , and also known , in the languages of the country , by the names of Medeu , Hitch Lalage , Loache , & c . , and by the French termed Jongleurs , every where opposed themselves to the ...
... adopted from the Indians . in their neighbourhood , and also known , in the languages of the country , by the names of Medeu , Hitch Lalage , Loache , & c . , and by the French termed Jongleurs , every where opposed themselves to the ...
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... adopted him , and sometimes doomed him to suffer death . No other person had the slightest authority with respect to him , this right being deemed sacred and in- violable . The Iroquois prisoner appeared before the Huron with the ...
... adopted him , and sometimes doomed him to suffer death . No other person had the slightest authority with respect to him , this right being deemed sacred and in- violable . The Iroquois prisoner appeared before the Huron with the ...
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... adopted among the aboriginal inhabitants , is a subject probably far beyond the reach of human inquiry . It had ... adoption of particular rules and customs ; but the practice in question appears to have been always common to the whole ...
... adopted among the aboriginal inhabitants , is a subject probably far beyond the reach of human inquiry . It had ... adoption of particular rules and customs ; but the practice in question appears to have been always common to the whole ...
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Página 343 - 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.
Página 317 - 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...
Página 318 - 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.
Página 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...
Página 238 - ... 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.
Página 342 - 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.
Página 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...
Página 317 - 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...
Página 342 - 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.
Página 248 - ... we know not when or how these Indians first became inhabitants of this mighty continent, yet we may guess that probably the Devil decoyed those miserable salvages hither, in hopes that the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ would never come here to destroy or disturb his absolute empire over them.