Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America: Including the United States, Canada, the Shores of the Polar Sea, and the Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage; with Observations on Emigration, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - America |
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... brought on a disease which terminated his life . As Gudrid his wife and some other friends were watching round him , the dead man rose from his bed , and predicted , Torf . Vinland , ch . v . that a person from Iceland would marry ...
... brought on a disease which terminated his life . As Gudrid his wife and some other friends were watching round him , the dead man rose from his bed , and predicted , Torf . Vinland , ch . v . that a person from Iceland would marry ...
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... brought by this fisherman roused the adventurous spirit of Zichmni . He equipped a fleet , which he placed under the command of Zeno , for the purpose of exploring Estotiland . Unluckily the fisherman died just as they were getting out ...
... brought by this fisherman roused the adventurous spirit of Zichmni . He equipped a fleet , which he placed under the command of Zeno , for the purpose of exploring Estotiland . Unluckily the fisherman died just as they were getting out ...
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... brought over by the Cabots from Newfoundland . " These were clothed in beasts ' skins , and did eat raw flesh , and spake such speech that no man could understand them . " How- ever , two years after , he saw them apparelled after the ...
... brought over by the Cabots from Newfoundland . " These were clothed in beasts ' skins , and did eat raw flesh , and spake such speech that no man could understand them . " How- ever , two years after , he saw them apparelled after the ...
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... brought with him several of the inhabit- ants , though surely not so many as fifty - seven , the number stated by Pedro Pascoal . On reaching lat . 60 ° , and seeing snow drifting through the air at the close of summer , and the sea ...
... brought with him several of the inhabit- ants , though surely not so many as fifty - seven , the number stated by Pedro Pascoal . On reaching lat . 60 ° , and seeing snow drifting through the air at the close of summer , and the sea ...
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... brought upon himself all the infirmities of a premature old age . Indeed , by what Oviedo could learn , instead of a second - youth , he arrived at a second childhood , and never discovered the same vigour , either of body or mind , as ...
... brought upon himself all the infirmities of a premature old age . Indeed , by what Oviedo could learn , instead of a second - youth , he arrived at a second childhood , and never discovered the same vigour , either of body or mind , as ...
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Page 195 - We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
Page 495 - Borgne walked there and found her sitting near the fire: without noticing his wife, he began to smoke with the father; when they were joined by the old men of the village, who knowing his temper had followed in hopes of appeasing him. He continued to smoke quietly with them, till rising to return, he took his wife by the hair, led her as far as the door, and with a single stroke of his tomahawk put her to death before her father's eyes: then turning fiercely upon the spectators, he said that if any...
Page 298 - ... us to confess what we did confess. And indeed that confession, that it is said we made, was no other than what was suggested to us by some gentlemen ; they telling us, that we were witches, and they knew it, and we knew it, and they knew that we knew it, which made us think that it was so...
Page 65 - ... after, I saw two, apparelled after the manner of Englishmen, in Westminster palace, which at that time I could not discern from Englishmen, till I was learned what they were ; but as for speech, I heard none of them utter one word.
Page 497 - ... seating himself on some rocks under the centre of the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle of this stupendous object which since the creation had been lavishing its magnificence upon the desert unknown to civilization.
Page 499 - The river, of one hundred and fifty yards in width, seems to have forced its channel down this solid mass, but so reluctantly has it given way that during the whole distance the water is very deep even at the edges, and for the first three miles there is not a spot except one of a few yards, in which a man could stand between the water and the towering perpendicular of the mountain : the...
Page 471 - We are seldom out of sight, as we travel on this grand track, towards the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us. ... A small waggon (so light that you might almost carry it, yet strong enough to bear a good load of bedding, utensils and provisions, and a swarm of young citizens...
Page 230 - It is strange to see with what great feare and adoration, all these people doe obey this Powhatan. For at his feet they present whatsoever he commandeth, and at the least frowne of his brow, their greatest spirits will tremble with feare: and no marvell, for he is very terrible and tyrannous in punishing such as offend him.
Page 309 - And we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with and not experienced in matters of that nature.
Page 495 - Borgne walked there, and found her sitting near the fire; without noticing his wife, he began to smoke with the father, when they were joined by the old men of the village, who, knowing his temper, had followed in hopes of appeasing him. He continued to smoke quietly with them, till, rising to return, he took his wife by the hair, led her as far as the door, and with a single stroke of his tomahawk put her to death before her father's eyes ; then turning fiercely upon the spectators, he said that...