 | Alexander Henry - Canada - 1901 - 418 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,...experiencing. No long time elapsed, before every one of Neorauka, along the Platte river, and its tributaries. They were constantly at war with the surrounding... | |
 | 1921 - 386 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 house... | |
 | Augustus Lynch Mason - Indians of North America - 1904 - 710 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... | |
 | Augustus Lynch Mason - Frontier and pioneer life - 1904 - 660 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... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Adventure and adventurers - 1905 - 426 pages
...mangled; the dying were writhing and shrieking under the unsatiated knife and tomahawk, amidst the shouts of rage and victory. I was shaken not only with horror at the sight, but with terror for myself. The sufferings which I witnessed, I seemed to be on the point... | |
 | Francis Parkman - America - 1910 - 442 pages
...happened that Pawnee slaves were to be found in tli« principal families of Detroit and Mi'-hilimackinac. up in the hollow of joined hands, and quaffed amid...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... | |
 | George Bird Grinnell - Northwest, Canadian - 1911 - 516 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 house... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 - 1912 - 314 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, scooped up in the 1 This name is commonly written Pawnee. The tribe who bore it lived, as at the present day, upon the... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - Indians of North America - 1916 - 370 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 to Henry seemed scarcely one, every victim who could be found being destroyed,... | |
 | Edwin Orin Wood - Mackinac Island - 1918 - 814 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,...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... | |
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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... 
