Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Volum 2Wiley and Putnam, 1839 |
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Pàgina 6
... present ; and accordingly , though his answer to the proposal was not couched in terms quite so diplo- matic as might have been wished , it was brief , sol- dier - like , and not easily capable of misconstruction ; it was in these words ...
... present ; and accordingly , though his answer to the proposal was not couched in terms quite so diplo- matic as might have been wished , it was brief , sol- dier - like , and not easily capable of misconstruction ; it was in these words ...
Pàgina 20
... present they never think it worth while to expend their powder and shot on an animal whose flesh is uneatable , and the skin of little value ; and there can be no doubt that it is the interest of the settlers to get rid of the wolves by ...
... present they never think it worth while to expend their powder and shot on an animal whose flesh is uneatable , and the skin of little value ; and there can be no doubt that it is the interest of the settlers to get rid of the wolves by ...
Pàgina 25
... present themselves at the post - offices , and on finding that their letters cost three shillings and four pence , or perhaps five or six shillings , turn away in despair . I have seen such letters not here only , but often and in ...
... present themselves at the post - offices , and on finding that their letters cost three shillings and four pence , or perhaps five or six shillings , turn away in despair . I have seen such letters not here only , but often and in ...
Pàgina 39
... present Lieutenant - governor ; a measure for which he has been severely censured , for the tribe were by no means unanimous in consenting to part with their possessions . About one hundred and fifty refused to agree , but they were in ...
... present Lieutenant - governor ; a measure for which he has been severely censured , for the tribe were by no means unanimous in consenting to part with their possessions . About one hundred and fifty refused to agree , but they were in ...
Pàgina 44
... present state of things , the interests of the red man and the white man can ever be blended , and their natures and ha .. bits brought to harmonize , then I repeat , let them come here , and behold and see the heathen and the so ...
... present state of things , the interests of the red man and the white man can ever be blended , and their natures and ha .. bits brought to harmonize , then I repeat , let them come here , and behold and see the heathen and the so ...
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Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Volum 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Visualització completa - 1839 |
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Volum 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Visualització completa - 1838 |
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Volum 2 Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Visualització de fragments - 1972 |
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American Amherstberg beautiful blanket bojou British brother called Canadian canoe chief Chippewas Christian civilization Detroit Detroit river dian dressed English eyes Father feelings fire fish forest Fort Malden Francis Head French friends hair hand head heard hundred hunting husband Indian Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Simcoe Lake Superior land leggings living lodge look Mackinaw MacMurray Manitoolin Island mats ment Michigan Michilimackinac miles missionaries moccasins Moravian morning never night observe Ottawas paddled Penetanguishine Pontiac poor Pottowattomies present river rock round Sault Sault Ste savage scene Schoolcraft seems seen settlements settlers shore side soon spirit stood Talbot things tion told trader trees tribes Upper Canada village voyageurs warrior Waub-Ojeeg whiskey white-fish whole wife wigwam wild wind woman women woods young
Passatges populars
Pàgina 275 - I" the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Pàgina 93 - You always told us that you would never draw your foot off British ground, but now, father, we see you are drawing back, and we are sorry to see our father doing so without seeing the enemy. We must compare our father's conduct to a fat dog that carries its tail upon its back, but when affrighted, it drops it between its legs and runs off.
Pàgina 93 - You always told us to remain here, and take care of our lands; it made our hearts glad to hear that was your wish. Our great father, the king, is the head, and you represent him: You always told us you would never draw your foot off British ground.
Pàgina 74 - Au Glaize — appear like one continued village for a number of miles, both above and below this place; nor have I ever before beheld such immense fields of corn in any part of America, from Canada to Florida.
Pàgina 176 - The next morning, the father, elated at having gained his end, prepared a repast for his son, and hastened to set it before him. On coming to the door, he was surprised to hear his son talking to himself. He stooped...
Pàgina 187 - With look like patient Job's eschewing evil; With motions graceful as a bird's in air; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a captive's hair...
Pàgina 182 - It is not true!' he shrieked with a loud voice, 'I am not dead, — I was not left on the field: I am here! I live! I move! see me! touch me! I shall again raise my spear in the battle, and sound my drum at the feast!' But no one heeded him; they mistook his voice for the wind rising and whistling among the boughs. He walked to his wigwam, and found his wife tearing her hair, and weeping for his death.
Pàgina 115 - ... projecting into the lake. On the east, the whole sky was flushed with a deep amber glow, fleckered with softest shades of rose-colour — the same intense splendour being reflected in the lake; and upon the extremity of the point, between the glory above and the glory below, stood the little Missionary church, its light spire and belfry defined against the sky. On the opposite side of the heavens hung the moon, waxing paler and paler, and melting away, as it seemed, before the splendour of the...
Pàgina 4 - It is a long wooden building, chiefly of rough logs, with a covered porch running along the south side. Here I found suspended, among sundry implements of husbandry, one of those ferocious animals of the feline kind, called here the cat-a-mountain, and by some the American tiger, or panther, which it more resembles. This one, which had been killed in its attack on the fold or poultryyard, was at least four feet in length, and glared on me from the rafters above ghastly and horrible. The interior...