Bulletin of the New York State Museum, 78. numberThe University, 1905 - 336 pages |
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Page 367 - Fires have placed their wisdom. It may be very small in your ears, and we therefore entreat you to hearken with attention : for we are about to speak of things which are to us very great.
Page 229 - Hear, Yonnondio, our women had taken their clubs, our children and old men had carried their bows and arrows into the heart of your camp, if our warriors had not disarmed them, and kept them back, when your messenger, Ohguesse, came to our castles.
Page 136 - To my mind, the structure of such a language as the Mohawk Is quite sufficient evidence that those who worked out such a work of art were powerful reasoners and accurate classifiers.
Page 180 - Indians raised a cry from hill to hill, a Mohawk ! a Mohawk! upon which they all fled like sheep before wolves, without attempting to make the least resistance, whatever odds were on their side.
Page 143 - The speakers whom I have heard," says Mr. Colden, " had all a great fluency of words, and much more grace in their manner, than any man could expect, among a people entirely ignorant of the liberal arts and sciences.
Page 124 - MCKELWAY MALHD LL.D..DCL Vice Chancellor - - - - -.- - - - Brooklyn 1908 DANIEL BEACH Ph.D. LL.D. Watkins 1914 PLINY T. SEXTON.
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Page 281 - We know our Lands are now become more valuable. The white People think we do not know their Value; but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting, and the few Goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.
Page 148 - The alliance or confederacy of the Five Nations was established, as near as can be conjectured, one age (or the length of a man's life) before the white people (the Dutch) came into the country. Thannawage was the name of the aged Indian, a Mohawk, who first proposed such an alliance.
Page 282 - For this purpose you are to preserve this string, in memory of what your uncles have this day given you in charge. We have some other business to transact with our brethren, and therefore depart the council, and consider what has been said to you.