American Antiquarian: A Quarterly Journal, Devoted to Early American History, Ethnology and Archaeology, Volume 2Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman Jameson & Morse, 1880 - America |
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Page 3 - The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Page 248 - SHORT'S NORTH AMERICANS OF ANTIQUITY. The North Americans of Antiquity. Their Origin, Migrations, and Type of Civilization Considered.
Page 251 - Result of Some Researches Among the British Archives for Information Relative to the Founders of New England; Made in the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860.
Page 255 - The ermine is of the genus mustela, (weasel,) and resembles the common weasel in its form ; is from fourteen to sixteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. The body is from ten to twelve inches long.
Page 54 - Though green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay ; All flesh is hay ; Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
Page 136 - About two miles from this, on the south-east side of the river, at the place where the Ohio company intended to erect a fort, lives Shingiss, king of the Delawares.
Page 147 - The first proceeding is to divert the course of a stream and in its bed to dig an enormous pit, the bottom of which is then covered with living women. At one end a woman is placed on her hands and knees, and upon her back the dead chief, covered with his beads and other treasures, is seated, being supported on either side by one of his wives, while his second wife sits at his feet. " The earth is then shoveled in on them, and all the women are buried alive with the exception of the second wife.
Page 116 - ... house had taken to their canoes to escape being torn to pieces. It is the custom among these Indians to burn their dead; but I suppose for these occasions they take care to deposit a corpse somewhere, in order to satisfy these inhuman wretches. "These, then, are some of the things and scenes which occur in the day during the winter months, while the nights are taken up with amusements —singing and dancing. Occasionally the medicine parties invite people to their several houses, and exhibit...
Page 7 - Panacea; or the Universal Medicine, being a Discovery of the Wonderful Vertues of Tobacco Taken in a Pipe, with its Operation and Use both in Physick and Chyrurgery.
Page 186 - States are washed by three seas : the Atlantic Ocean on the east, the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. The...