The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War After the Conquest of Canada, 2. köideLittle, Brown, 1893 |
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Page 125 - ... protested their innocence, declared their love to the English, and that, in their whole lives they had never done them injury ; and in this posture they all received the hatchet!
Page 83 - ... morning at this season, walk hastily out, and look anxiously to the woods and snuff the autumnal winds with the highest rapture, then return into the house and cast a quick and attentive look at the rifle, which was always suspended to a joist by a couple of buck horns, or little forks.
Page 167 - Johnson,' said the spirit (and after the spirit, the priest), ' Sir William Johnson will fill their canoes with presents: with blankets, kettles, guns, gunpowder, and shot, and large barrels of rum, such as the stoutest of the Indians will not be able to lift; and every man will return in safety to his family.
Page 220 - ... exception: Englishmen, Frenchmen, women, and children; whether adopted into your tribes, married, or living among you under any denomination or pretence whatsoever. And you are to furnish these prisoners with clothing, provisions, and horses, to carry them to Fort Pitt. When you have fully complied with these conditions, you shall then know on what terms you may obtain the peace you sue for.
Page 169 - I found the snake still coiled. > The Indians, on their part, surrounded it, all addressing it by turns, and calling it their grandfather ; but yet keeping at some distance. During this part of the ceremony, they filled their pipes ; and now each blew the smoke toward the snake, who, as it appeared to me, really received it with pleasure. In a word, after remaining coiled, and receiving incense, for the space of half an hour, it stretched itself along the ground, in visible good humour.
Page 339 - Belief of Fort Pitt, as in Case of Another Engagement I Fear Insurmountable Difficulties in protecting and Transporting our Provisions, being already so much Weakened by the Losses of this Day, in Men and Horses ; besides the Additional Necessity of Carrying the Wounded, Whose Situation is truly Deplorable.
Page 343 - Kemp who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, did depose and say That on the...
Page 27 - Mingoes had closely Beset, and Attacked this Fort from the 27th July, to the First Instant, when they Quitted it to March against us. " The Boldness of those Savages is hardly Credible ; they had taken Post under the Banks of Both Rivers, Close to the Fort, where Digging Holes, they kept an Incessant Fire, and threw Fire Arrows : They are good Marksmen, and though our People were under Cover, they Killeil one, & Wounded seven.
Page 338 - Regiment, Who Drove the Enemy from their Ambuscade, and pursued them a good Way. The Savages Returned to the Attack, and the Fire being Obstinate on our Front, and Extending...
Page 14 - A third has gone to the frontiers of Virginia, where they will be joined by your enemies, the Cherokees and Catawbas, who are coming here to destroy you. Therefore take pity on your women and children, and get out of the way as soon as possible. We have told you this in confidence, out of our great solicitude lest any of you should be hurt ; and we hope that you will not tell the other Indians, lest they should escape from our vengeance.