"O Grandfather, tell us all about that Indian Bible!" exclaimed Laurence.
They were thrown into dungeons; they were beaten with many stripes, women as well as men; they were driven forth into the wilderness, and left to the tender mercies of tender mercies of wild beasts and Indians. The children were amazed hear that the more the Quakers were scourged, and imprisoned, and banished, the more did the sect increase, both by the influx of strangers and by converts from among the Puritans, But Grandfather told them that God had put something into the soul of man, which always turned the cruelties of the persecutor to naught.
In an encampment, however, of such fancied security as that in which Captain Bonneville found his Indian friends, much of these precautions with respect to their horses are omitted.
Game had now become scarce in the neighborhood of the camp, and it was necessary, according to Indian custom, to move off to a less beaten ground.
To conclude, I can now say that I have verified the saying of an old Indian who signed Col.
We proceeded successfully, and after a long and fatiguing journey through a mountainous wilderness, in a westward direction, on the seventh day of June following, we found ourselves on Red-River, where John Finley had formerly been trading with the Indians, and, from the top of an eminence, saw with pleasure the beautiful level of Kentucke.
And then the chief
Indian, who spoke English, said to the boy, "Hold out your hand."
Rio Negro -- Estancias attacked by the
Indians -- Salt-Lakes -- Flamingoes -- R.
The King of Persia, who was interested in every thing out of the common, and had never before come across a horse with such qualities, bade the
Indian mount tho animal, and show what he could do.
The Canadian traders, for a long time, had troublesome competitors in the British merchants of New York, who inveigled the
Indian hunters and the coureurs des bois to their posts, and traded with them on more favorable terms.
Tom, this is the brother of the
Indian who fell overboard and who was eaten by the alligators.
Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the
Indian tongues, it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most of the disadvantages of strange languages; hence much of the embarrassment that has arisen in learning their histories, and most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.