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" In that time came a company of Indians to us, near thirty, all on horseback. My heart skipped within me, thinking they had been Englishmen at the first sight of them, for they were dressed in English apparel, with hats, white neckcloths, and sashes about... "
Biography and History of the Indians of North America: Comprising a General ... - Page 87
by Samuel G. Drake - 1834 - 541 lehte
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The Book of the Indians of North America

Samuel Gardner Drake - 2001 - 472 lehte
...after." Mrs. R. continues, "came a company of Indians to us, near 30. all on horseback. My heart skipt within me. thinking they had been Englishmen, at the...Christians, and the foul looks of those heathen, which much clamped my spirits again. "§ Having, after great distress, arrived at Wachuset, our authoress adds,...
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Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination

Shari M. Huhndorf - 2001 - 240 lehte
...each of these revelations, Rowlandson carefully obscures the similarities — noting, for example, the "vast difference between the lovely faces of Christians, and the foul looks of those Heathens" on horseback. My point is not that Rowlandson approaches a dispassionate understanding of...
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Early American Writings

Carla Mulford, Angela Vietto (ed), Amy E. Winans - 2002 - 1158 lehte
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Missions of Interdependence: A Literary Directory

Gerhard Stilz - 2002 - 454 lehte
...lie: U of Virginia P. 19951: ch. L their waists, and ribhnns upon their shoulders, but when they tame near there was a vast difference between the lovely faces of Christians and the foul looks of those heathens which much damped my spirit again. (58-591 Almost obsessively, Rowlandson retums again and...
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Missions of Interdependence: A Literary Directory

Gerhard Stilz - 2002 - 444 lehte
...came a company of lndians to us, near thirty, all on horsehack. My heart skipped within me. thiuking they had been Englishmen at the first sight of them, for they were dressed in English appare1, with hats, while neckcloths and sashes about See 1ames AxtelL The European and the 1ndian:...
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Classic American Autobiographies

William L. Andrews - 2003 - 468 lehte
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Survivors: True Tales of Endurance

John B. Letterman - 2003 - 472 lehte
...to us, near thirty, all on horseback. My heart skipt within me, thinking they had been English men at the first sight of them, for they were dressed...white neckcloths, and sashes about their waists, and ribbonds upon their shoulders. But when they came near, there was a vast difference between the lovely...
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Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Mrs Mary Rowlandson - 2004 - 37 lehte
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Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America

Kristina Bross - 2004 - 276 lehte
...to us, near thirty, all on horseback. My heart skipt within me, thinking they had been English men at the first sight of them, for they were dressed...white Neckcloths, and Sashes about their waists, and Ribbonds upon their shoulders: but when they came near, there was a vast difference between the lovely...
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The Making of the Modern Self: identity and culture in eighteenth-century ...

Dror Wahrman - 2004 - 444 lehte
...hopes of rescue were raised by an encounter with a group of riders whom she took to be Englishmen, "for they were dressed in English apparel, with hats,...about their waists, and ribbons upon their shoulders". Upon approaching closer, however, Rowlandson discovered to her great dismay that the riders were in...
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