 | Isaac Brock - Canada - 1847 - 518 pages
...were writhing and shrieking, under the insatiated knife and tomahawk ; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood...hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory." t The site of the old French post, Fort Duquesne, in Pennsylvania. N immediate succours to those two... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1851 - 528 pages
...dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...every one being destroyed who could be found, there was a general cry of " Ml is finished!" At the same instant I heard some of the Indians enter the house... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1851 - 536 pages
...were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and J tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...experiencing. No long time elapsed before, every one heing destroyed who could be found, there was a general cry of " All is finished!" At the same instant... | |
 | John Frost - Indian captivities - 1852 - 708 pages
...dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiatcd knife and tomahawk; and from thn bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...every one being destroyed who could be found, there was a general cry of "All is finished!" At the same instant I heard some of the Indians enter the house... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1853 - 534 pages
...were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and J t' unahawk ; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...every one being destroyed who could be found, there was a general cry of " All is finished !'' At the same instant I heard some of the Indians enter the... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1855 - 908 pages
...writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and the reeking tomahawk; and from the bodies of some ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory. In a few minutes, which seemed to Henry scarcely one, every victim, who could be found, being destroyed,... | |
 | Jacob Ferris - Mississippi River Valley - 1856 - 390 pages
...were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk ; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory." The posts at St. Mary's and Green Bay did not share the fate of Michilimackinac. St. Mary's had been... | |
 | Jacob Ferris - Mississippi River Valley - 1856 - 366 pages
...dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory." The posts at St. Mary's and Green Bay did not share the fate of Michilimackinac. St. Mary's had been... | |
 | 1857 - 414 pages
...dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...every one being destroyed who could be found, there was a general cry of "All is finished !" At the same instant I heard some of the Indians enter the... | |
 | Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1858 - 766 pages
...writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and the recking tomahawk; and from the bodies of some ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory. In a few minutes, which seemed to Henry scarcely one, every victim who could be found, being destroyed,... | |
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... a view of the area of the fort, I beheld, in shapes the foulest and most terrible, the ferocious triumphs of barbarian conquerors. The dead were scalped and mangled ; the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk; and... 
