Sergeant Atkins: A Tale of Adventure. Founded on FactJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 301 pages |
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alligator animals answered arms Bill English Black Drink blue-jackets Bluesnake Bluesnake's body brother bushes camp canoe Charley-Emathla chief conjurer cried dance dark dead Echo-willa Emathla enemy exclaimed eyes face father feet fight fire Florida followed Fort King gazing geant gone Gopher grass ground hair Hallac hand head heard hummock hunting-shirt Indian Itun Itunwah killed King knife laughed left'nant listened live lodge look Luste-Hadjo matter Micco-nope moccasins nation never night noise officer old soldier Oseola OUIDA pale-face party pause pine-barren prisoner recruit redskin replied returned rifle river savage scalp scalp-lock seemed seen Seminoles Sergeant Atkins shook side silence skin smile snake speak spirit squaws stood story strange swamp talk tell thicket thing thought town trail trees tribes turned Uncle Jerry uttered voice warrior whilst white man's Withlacoochee River woods words
Popular passages
Page 83 - I found the natives generally as much at a loss in this respect as myself. Sometimes a sound is heard like the clang of an iron bar against a hard, hollow tree, or a piercing cry rends the air : these are not repeated, and the succeeding silence tends to heighten the unpleasant impression which they make on the mind.
Page 83 - ... animal, which is pounced upon by a tiger-cat or stealthy boa-constrictor. Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise, under which it is difficult to keep up one's buoyancy of spirit. The feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire, is increased tenfold under this fearful uproar. Often, even in the still hours of midday, a sudden crash will be heard resounding afar through the wilderness, as some great bough or entire tree falls...
Page 21 - I a negro, a slave? My skin is dark, but not black. I am an Indian — a Seminole. The white man shall not make me black. I will make the white man red with blood, and then blacken him in the sun and rain, where the wolf shall smell of his bones, and the buzzard shall live upon his flesh.
Page 83 - Sometimes, in the midst of the stillness, a sudden yell or scream will startle one ; this comes from some defenceless fruit-eating animal, which is pounced upon by a tiger-cat or stealthy boa-constrictor. Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise, under which it is difficult to keep up one's buoyancy of spirit. The feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire, is increased tenfold under this fearful uproar.