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... tribe of Indians . But diminished in numbers , and oppressed by a sense of degradation , the survivers exhibited the melancholy rein- nant of a fallen race , like the almost extinguished embers of a flame , once terrible in wildness ...
... tribe of Indians . But diminished in numbers , and oppressed by a sense of degradation , the survivers exhibited the melancholy rein- nant of a fallen race , like the almost extinguished embers of a flame , once terrible in wildness ...
Page 33
... tribe , though universally in a state of rudeness , exhibited considerable variety of ap- pearance . Occasionally , the ancient wigwam might be detected , lifting its cone - like head among the bushes ; then a tenement of rough logs ...
... tribe , though universally in a state of rudeness , exhibited considerable variety of ap- pearance . Occasionally , the ancient wigwam might be detected , lifting its cone - like head among the bushes ; then a tenement of rough logs ...
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... tribe , the secondary sex were far the most docile , whether religious truth , or domestic economy were the subjects of instruction . Still the distaff , the needle , and the loom were less congenial to their inclinations , than the ...
... tribe , the secondary sex were far the most docile , whether religious truth , or domestic economy were the subjects of instruction . Still the distaff , the needle , and the loom were less congenial to their inclinations , than the ...
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... tribe . They regarded no toil in travelling , or labour in searching the thickets , for medicinal plants and roots . To sooth the agony of pain , or conquer the malignity of disease , was a victory , which their affectionate hearts ...
... tribe . They regarded no toil in travelling , or labour in searching the thickets , for medicinal plants and roots . To sooth the agony of pain , or conquer the malignity of disease , was a victory , which their affectionate hearts ...
Page 38
... tribe , now so despised , was once formidable to our ancestors . Its friendship was courted , and its aid , during the wars with Philip , in the seventeenth century , was very important to them in the infancy of their colony . It was ...
... tribe , now so despised , was once formidable to our ancestors . Its friendship was courted , and its aid , during the wars with Philip , in the seventeenth century , was very important to them in the infancy of their colony . It was ...
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