The travels of capts. Lewis & Clarke, from St. Louis, by way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, to the Pacific ocean, in 1804, 1805, & 1806. Containing delineations of the manners &c. of the Indians compiled from various authentic sources [really a spurious compilation, derived from various sources antedating the expedition] and a summary of the statistical view of the Indian nations, from the official communication of M. LewisLongman, 1809 - 309 עמודים |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
abundance America animals appear Arkansa Arkansa river ascending banks Bayau bear beaver Black river buffalo Caddo calcarious called ceremony chief colour Columbia river considerable corn covered creek dance deer distance dress earth east enemies esteemed extremely feast feet French frequently head high land hill horses hot springs hundred hunters hunting inches Indians inhabitants inundation island kind Knisteneaux lake language latitude leagues live Mandans miles Mississippi Missouri mitenah Mobilian moon mountains mouth Nacogdoches Natchitoches nation navigation neighbours nerally never observed occasion ocean Osage Osage river Pacific ocean Panias party passed person pipe of peace plains prairies present quantity rapids Red river resembling residence river Plate rock rocky salt sand savages season settlement side Sioux skins soil sometimes Spaniards speak Spirit stone stratum Tetons thence timber tion trade trees tribe village warriors Washita women wood
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עמוד 34 - ... and makes but very little inquiry about the matter; on the contrary, if you inform him that his children are slain or taken prisoners, he makes no complaints : he only replies, " it is unfortunate ;" — and for some time asks no questions about how it happened.
עמוד 119 - They are, at the same time, subject to every kind of domestic drudgery; they dress the leather, make the clothes and shoes, weave the nets, collect wood, erect the tents, fetch water, and perform every culinary service; so that when the duties of maternal care are added, it will appear that the life of these women is an uninterrupted succession of toil and pain. This, indeed is the sense they entertain of their own situation; and, under the influence of that sentiment, they are sometimes known to...
עמוד 67 - All sung the war-song, and, burning with impatience to imbrue their hands in the blood of their enemies, rushed down among innocent and defenceless families on the frontiers of Carolina, where men, women, and children, without distinction, fell a sacrifice to their merciless fury. Such of the whites as fled to the woods, and escaped the scalping-knife, perished with hunger.
עמוד 11 - Columbia, two hundred and sixty one miles up that river; the second of two miles at the long narrows, six miles below the falls, and a third, also of two miles, at the great Rapids, sixty-five miles still lower down.
עמוד 98 - Spirit: and they look up to him as the source of good from whence no evil can proceed. They also believe in a bad Spirit, to whom they ascribe great power ; and suppose that through his power all the evils, which befall mankind are inflicted.
עמוד 124 - These smoking rites precede every matter of great importance, with more or less ceremony, but always with equal solemnity. The utility of them will appear from the following relation. If a chief is anxious to know the disposition of...
עמוד 167 - These are the vilest miscreants of the savage race, and must ever remain the pirates of the Missouri, until such measures are pursued by our government as will make them feel a dependence on its will for their supply of merchandize.
עמוד 16 - On the 17th of November we reached the ocean, where various considerations induced us to spend the winter; we therefore searched for an eligible situation for that purpose, and selected a spot on the south side of a little river, called by the natives...
עמוד 37 - But if they are thus barbarous to those with whom they are at war, they are friendly, hospitable, and humane in peace. It may with truth be said of them, that they are the worst enemies and the best friends of any people in the whole world.
עמוד 17 - ... befallen the natives, saved the traders from destruction : this was the small-pox, which spread its destructive and desolating power, as the fire consumes the dry grass of the field. The fatal infection spread around with a baneful rapidity which no flight could escape, and with a fatal effect that nothing could resist. It destroyed with its pestilential breath whole families and tribes...