Discovery and Conquests of the North-west, with the History of Chicago, Teil 1R. Blanchard & Company, 1881 - 768 Seiten |
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... gave symbolic names to their rivers , lakes , islands and to themselves , and in their vocabulary they had the name Chicago , which , in the language of the Illinois tribes meant an onion . And in the language of the Pot- tawattomies ...
... gave symbolic names to their rivers , lakes , islands and to themselves , and in their vocabulary they had the name Chicago , which , in the language of the Illinois tribes meant an onion . And in the language of the Pot- tawattomies ...
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... gave their possessors the right to speak in their councils and challenged due homage from the whole tribe . By these qualifications in gradations of political power and influence nice distinctions were made by common consent , and he ...
... gave their possessors the right to speak in their councils and challenged due homage from the whole tribe . By these qualifications in gradations of political power and influence nice distinctions were made by common consent , and he ...
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... gave out and his companions built a log cabin for him on the South branch of the Chicago river , and nursed him with tender solicitude through the winter , and the Indians often brought him such luxuries as their limited means could ...
... gave out and his companions built a log cabin for him on the South branch of the Chicago river , and nursed him with tender solicitude through the winter , and the Indians often brought him such luxuries as their limited means could ...
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... gave us much trouble . Pierre did not come in till one o'clock at night , having got lost on a road on which he had never before been . After rain and thunder , snow began to fall . 29. Having been compelled to change our cabinage , we ...
... gave us much trouble . Pierre did not come in till one o'clock at night , having got lost on a road on which he had never before been . After rain and thunder , snow began to fall . 29. Having been compelled to change our cabinage , we ...
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... gave them a buffalo and a day , going to carry their furs to Nawaskingwe . deer that Jacques had killed the day before . I think I never saw Indians more greedy for French tobacco than these . They came and threw beaver skins at our ...
... gave them a buffalo and a day , going to carry their furs to Nawaskingwe . deer that Jacques had killed the day before . I think I never saw Indians more greedy for French tobacco than these . They came and threw beaver skins at our ...
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Seite 149 - Cresap, the last spring, in cold blood, and unprovoked, murdered all the relations of Logan, not even sparing my women and children. There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life. Who is there to...
Seite 175 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Seite 208 - Lawrence ; thence westerly to a fork of that branch of the great Miami river running into the Ohio, at or near which fork stood Loromie's store, and where commences the portage between the Miami of the Ohio, and St. Mary's river, which is a branch of the Miami, which runs into Lake Erie; thence a westerly course to Fort Recovery...
Seite 104 - Englishman, our father, the king of France, employed our young men to make war upon your nation. In this warfare, many of them have been killed; and it is our custom to retaliate, until such time as the spirits of the slain are satisfied.
Seite 94 - The paths of glory lead but to the grave " — must have seemed at such a moment fraught with mournful meaning. At the close of the recitation Wolfe added, "Now, gentlemen, I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec.
Seite 194 - Money to us is of no value; and to most of us unknown; and, as no consideration whatever can induce us to sell the lands on which we get sustenance for our women and children, we hope we may be allowed to point out a mode by which your settlers may be easily removed, and peace thereby obtained.
Seite 23 - We are made a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.
Seite 175 - September last ; that is to say, upon condition that the territory so ceded shall be laid out and formed Into states, containing a suitable extent of territory, not less than one hundred nor more than one hundred and fifty miles square...
Seite 149 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat ; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed and said, " Logan is the friend of the white men.
Seite 105 - France; but for you we have taken into consideration that you have ventured your life among us in the expectation that we should not molest you. You do not come armed with an intention to make war; you come in peace to trade with us and supply us with necessaries of which we are in much want.