Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Volumen15Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1905 |
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Página 26 - Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man's brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Página 31 - I will still remain. When you married me, you promised to use me kindly as long as I should be faithful to you; that I have been so, no one can deny. Ours was not a marriage contracted for a season, it was to terminate only with our lives. I was then a young girl, and might have been united to an Omawhaw chief; but I am now an old woman, having had two children, and what Omawhaw will regard me?
Página 329 - ... (3) COMBAT. The clenched hands are held about as high as the neck, and five or six inches asunder, then waved two or three times laterally, to show the advances and retreats of the combatants ; after which the fingers of each hand are suffered to spring from the thumb towards each other, as in the act of sprinkling water, to represent the flight of the missile weapons, which are used by them.
Página 264 - For some time we were unable to decide whether what we saw were mountains, or banks of cumulous clouds skirting the horizon, and glittering in the reflected rays of the sun. It was only ^^ ^ ^ ^ by watching the bright parts, and observing that their form and position remained unaltered, that we were able to satisfy ourselves, they were indeed mountains. They were visible from the lowest parts of the plain, and their summits were, when first discovered, several degrees above our horizon. They became...
Página 62 - ... cranium get hooked under a root or other obstacle, he must extricate it in the best manner he can, by pulling different ways, but he must not touch the rope or the head, with his hands, or in any respect attempt to relieve the painful strain upon his wounds, until his complete task is performed. ' Some of the penitents have arrows thrust through various muscular parts of their bodies, as through the skin and superficial muscles of the arm, leg, breast, and back. 'A devotee caused two stout arrows...
Página 197 - ... river, being a vast expanse of prairie, or natural meadow, without a hill or other inequality of surface, and with scarce a tree or a shrub to be seen upon it.
Página 131 - ... Winnebagoes," which derivation, he said, he did not doubt. A brief notice of one form of the- tradition regarding the early movements of these tribes has been given; but as originally obtained by Mr. Say, the naturalist, he renders it as follows, in speaking of the Otoe : " It thus appears, that their name has been adopted subsequently to the migration and partition of the great nation, of which they were formerly but a band. This great nation, they say, originally resided somewhere to the northward...
Página 235 - ... twenty miles north of the sources of the Platte. It is probably the river which was mistaken by Captain Pike for the Yellow-stone, and has been laid down as such on his map, whence the mistake has been copied into several others. It has its source in numerous small streams, which descend from the hills surrounding a circumscribed valley within the mountains, called the Bull-pen. This basin is surrounded by high and rugged mountains, except at the place where the North fork passes into the plains.
Página 222 - The sound may be imitated by the pronunciation of the syllable ' chek, chek, chek !' in a sibillated manner, and in rapid succession, by propelling the breath between the tip of the tongue and the roof of the mouth. As particular places are in general occupied by the burrows of these animals, such assemblages of dwellings are denominated prairie dog villages by the hunters. They vary widely in extent, some being confined to an area of a few miles, others bounded by a circumference of many miles....
Página 63 - Another Minnetaree, in compliance with a vow he had made, caused a hole to be perforated through the muscles of each shoulder; through these holes cords were passed, which were, at the opposite ends, attached by way of a bridle to a horse, that had been penned up three or four days without food or water. In this manner he led the horse to the margin of the river. The horse, of course, endeavored to drink, but it was the province of the Indian to prevent him, and that only by straining at the cords...