 | Alexander Henry - Canada - 1809 - 364 pages
...performance of this promise, I now claim. " I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, " Menehwehna, best know, whether or not, as it " respects yourself,...claim which " any man among you all may have on my bro" ther, as his prisoner." • Wawatam having ceased, the pipes were again filled ; and, after they... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indian captivities - 1839 - 382 pages
...The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, as -it respects yourself, you have kept your word, hut I bring these goods, to buy off every claim which any man among you all may have on my brother,... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - Indian captivities - 1841 - 374 pages
...The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, as it respects yourself,...gave his reply : " My relation and brother," said he, " what you have spoken is the truth. We were acquainted with the friendship which subsisted between... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1851 - 528 pages
...The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, as it respects yourself,...and gave his reply: " My relation and brother," said he, " what you have spoken is the truth. We were acquainted with the friendship which subsisted between... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1851 - 536 pages
...The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, as it respects yourself,...buy off every claim which any man among you all may hare on my brother, as his prisoner." Wawatam having ceased, the pipes were again filled; and, after... | |
 | John Frost - Indian captivities - 1852 - 708 pages
...The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, as it respects yourself,...gave his reply : " My relation and brother," said he, " what you have spoken is the truth. We were acquainted with the friendship which subsisted between... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1853 - 534 pages
...promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, aa it respects yourself, you have kept your word; but...end of this, Menehwehna arose and gave his reply: have been blamed, whether guilty or not; and you would thus have been involved in difficulties from... | |
 | 1857 - 414 pages
...The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, as it respects yourself,...gave his reply : " My relation and brother," said he, " what you have spoken is the truth. We were acquainted with the friendship which subsisted between... | |
 | James Alvin Van Fleet - Mackinac - 1870 - 190 pages
...The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, as it respects yourself,...have kept your word, but I bring these goods to buy oft' every claim which any man among you all may have on my brother, as his prisoner.' " Wawatam having... | |
 | Michigan - 1873 - 756 pages
...giving him safely to me. The performance of this I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. I bring these goods, to buy off every claim which...among you all may have on my brother, as his prisoner/ 1 Wawatam having ceased, the pipes were again filled ; and, after they were finished, a further period... | |
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The performance of this promise I now claim. I come not with empty hands to ask it. You, Menehwehna, best know whether or not, as it respects yourself, you have kept your word, but I bring these goods, to buy off every claim which any man among you all... 
