Travels in America Performed in 1806: For the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and Vicinity, Volumen 2R. Phillips, 1808 |
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... never display any part of it with- out wild cries and horrid gesticulation . Hence , whenever they administer the simple applicable to the disorder , they express cabalistical ejaculations , shrieks and ' contortions , to impress on the ...
... never display any part of it with- out wild cries and horrid gesticulation . Hence , whenever they administer the simple applicable to the disorder , they express cabalistical ejaculations , shrieks and ' contortions , to impress on the ...
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... never known to inhabit where it grows ; and , if a branch of black ash be suddenly cast before a rattle - snake , apprehension and fear in- stantly seize him ; his rattle ceases ; his passion subsides ; and groveling , timid , yet ...
... never known to inhabit where it grows ; and , if a branch of black ash be suddenly cast before a rattle - snake , apprehension and fear in- stantly seize him ; his rattle ceases ; his passion subsides ; and groveling , timid , yet ...
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... the snakes will writhe about them in a kind of suffering and terror , but never attempt to bite . Making the snakes dance and move in a variety of forms in a certain place , is nothing • more than what I have so often stated , AMERICA . 11.
... the snakes will writhe about them in a kind of suffering and terror , but never attempt to bite . Making the snakes dance and move in a variety of forms in a certain place , is nothing • more than what I have so often stated , AMERICA . 11.
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... never have quitted the Rhine , had he had money enough to rebuild his barn which was blown down by a high wind , but that he would return to the very spot from whence he came , and prove to his neighbours that he loved his country as ...
... never have quitted the Rhine , had he had money enough to rebuild his barn which was blown down by a high wind , but that he would return to the very spot from whence he came , and prove to his neighbours that he loved his country as ...
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... never witnessed out of Britain . The conversation was chaste and general , and the manners of the lady and gentleman were refined without being frigid ; dis- tinguished without being ostentatious , and familiar without being vulgar , im ...
... never witnessed out of Britain . The conversation was chaste and general , and the manners of the lady and gentleman were refined without being frigid ; dis- tinguished without being ostentatious , and familiar without being vulgar , im ...
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Página 62 - 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 white men!
Página 60 - In the spring of 1774, a robbery and murder were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of Virginia, by two Indians of the Shawanee tribe. The neighbouring whites, according to their custom, undertook to punish this outrage in a summary manner. Colonel Cresap, a man...
Página 63 - 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 harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to mourn for Logan? — Not one.
Página 63 - 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 harbor...
Página 63 - ... 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 harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 124 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 61 - ... attack from the whites. Cresap and his party concealed themselves on the bank of the river, and the moment the canoe reached the shore, singled out their objects, and at one fire killed every person in it. This happened to be the family of Logan, who had long been distinguished as a friend to the whites.
Página 62 - This unworthy return provoked his vengeance. 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 256 - Indiana is included between 37° 41' and 41° 46' north latitude, and between 84° 44' and 88° 6' west longitude. It is bounded on the north by the parallel which is ten miles north of the southern extremity of Lake Michigan; on the east by the meridian of the mouth of the Great Miami River; on the south by the Ohio, and on the west by the Wabash River and the meridian of Vincennes. Its extreme length is 250 miles, its average width 145 miles, its area, .36,350 square miles.
Página 146 - ... have all the glass struck out by boys in the day, and the inside torn up by rogues and prostitutes who frequent them at night.