 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 258 páginas
...wrapped up with their most precious articles. In some families they have been kept for more than fifty years; in others, they have descended from time out...with its top rising above ' the water, which gave an opportunity to those passing by to cut pieces from it; but when I passed that vicinity it had disappeared.... | |
 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 262 páginas
...been kept for more than fifty years; in others, they have descended from time out o£mihd — feeing cherished as domestic gods. "For some time there was...copper with its top rising above the water, which gave an opportunity to those passing by to cut pieces from it; but when I passed that vicinity it had disappeared.... | |
 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 258 páginas
...him;" and this is the name applied to it on the earliest map. "For some time there was seen near tiie shore 'a large rock of copper with its top rising above the water, which gave an opportunity to those passing by to cut pieces from it; but when 1 passed that vicinity it had disappeared.... | |
 | Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 418 páginas
...up with their most precious articles. IB some families they have been kept for more than fifty Eock of Copper — Chaquamagon Bay. years ; in others,...time out of mind, being cherished as domestic gods. ct For some time there was seen near the shore a large rock of copper, with its top rising above the... | |
 | Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences - 1876 - 396 páginas
...wrapped up in their most precious articles. In some families they have been kepi, for more than fifty years, in others, they have descended from time out of mind, — being cherished as domestic gods." Again the Rev. Father, at the Grand Council at Sault St. Marie, in May, 1671, when speaking of Louis... | |
 | Mansfield Tracy Walworth - 1877 - 480 páginas
...wrapped up with their most precious articles. In 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 Dablon says, in his .'/ Relation " for 1669: " In cook:ng their meals, as is usual among the... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - 1881 - 586 páginas
...wrapped up with their most precious articles. In 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." (Quoted in " Report on the Copper-lands of Lake Superior, by Foster and Whitney, Washington, DC, 185o,... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - 1881 - 584 páginas
...wrapped up with their most precious articles. In 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." (Quoted in " Report on the Copper-lands of Lake Superior, by Foster and Whitney, Washington, DC, 185o,... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott - 1881 - 586 páginas
...wrapped up with their most precious articles. In 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." (Quoted in "Report on the Copper-lands of Lake Superior, by Foster and Whitney, Washington, DC, 185o,... | |
 | Charles Conrad Abbott, Henry Carvill Lewis - 1881 - 580 páginas
...wrapped up with their most .precious articles. In 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." (Quoted in " Report on the Copper-lands of Lake Superior, by Foster and Whitney, Washington, DC, 185o,... | |
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... superstitious, they esteem 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... 
