 | Edwin Orin Wood - Mackinac - 1918 - 808 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... | |
 | Milo Milton Quaife - Wisconsin - 1924 - 622 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,...point of experiencing. No long time elapsed before everyone being de4 Henry gives June 4, tlie birthday of King George ITT, as the date of the mnssncre.... | |
 | George Newman Fuller, Lewis Beeson - Local history - 1922 - 844 pages
...Jemette scalped and butchered. From the bodies of others ripped open, their butchers were drinking blood scooped up in the hollow of joined hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory. Henry, shaken with fear and horror, dashed over his back fence to the house of his neighbor Langlade,... | |
 | Alexander Henry - Canada - 1921 - 388 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... | |
 | Frederick Drimmer - History - 1985 - 388 pages
...mangled, the dying were writhing and shrieking under the knife and tomahawk. From the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...point of experiencing. No long time elapsed before, everyone being destroyed who could be found, there was a general cry of "All is finished!" At the same... | |
 | Edmund Jefferson Danziger - Social Science - 1990 - 312 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,...joined hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory.7 The captives escaped the dreadful tortures planned for them only because of the intercessions... | |
 | Richard VanDerBeets - History - 1994 - 424 pages
...1778]); Alexander Henry observed at the massacre at Fort Michilimackinac that "from the bodies of some, ripped open, their butchers were drinking the blood,...hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory" (Travels and Adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories [New York, 1809]). Cf. also the account... | |
 | Howard Henry Peckham - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 388 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,...of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory."6 The Chippewas had planned this surprise by themselves, after learning that Pontiac had begun... | |
 | R.G. Moyles - Literary Collections - 1994 - 346 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, scooped up in the hollow ofjoined hands, and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory. I was shaken, not only The garret was... | |
 | Willis F. Dunbar, George S. May - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 788 pages
...shtieking under the unsariared knife and tomahawk; and rrom the bndies of some, ripped open, their burchers were drinking the blood, scooped up in the hollow...of joined hands and quaffed amid shouts of rage and victory.2 With Captain Etheringron ar Michilimackinac were Lieurenant William Leslye, whom he had succeeded... | |
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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... 
