Conversations Principally on the Aborigines of North America |
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Aborigines Abu Taleb Alachua amongst Analectic ancient Andromache appears arrived attention barbarity Bartram beautiful busk Canaanites Caroline ceded character Charlevoix Cherokee Cherokee Nation chief children of nature Christianity civilized common confidence corn coun council Creek Indians cultivated Cuscowilla dances destroy dians distance divine earth Eliza Elizabeth endeavoured enjoy entertained exhibit fathers favour feelings forests friends fruits Georgia give given ground habitations happy Hector honour hostile human imagine Indian territory Indian women inhabitants Israelites justice labour lake land M'Intosh manner ment mercy moral Mother mounts Muscogulges Natches nation natives nature notwithstanding observations party plain Polygamy possessed received religion river savanna says Seminoles sent spirit sufferings superior tender mercies tenuate territory tetragon tion told town traders treaty tribes Uchee Creek United unquestionably veneration voice warriors whilst William Bartram wisdom writer yards young
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Page 103 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 67 - They then feast on the new* corn and fruits, and dance and sing for three days, " and the four following days they receive visits and rejoice with their friends from neighboring towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.
Page 72 - They seem to be free from want or desires. No cruel enemy to dread ; nothing to give them disquietude, but the gradual encroachments of the white people. Thus contented and undisturbed, they appear as blithe and free as the birds of the air, and like them as volatile and active, tuneful and vociferous. The visage, action, and deportment of the...
Page 67 - On the fourth morning, the high priest, by rubbing dry wood together, produces new fire in the public square, from whence every habitation in the town is supplied with the new and pure flame.
Page 142 - Indian corn, cotton, tobacco, wheat, oats, indigo, sweet and Irish potatoes. The natives carry on considerable trade with the adjoining States; and some of them export cotton in boats down the Tennessee, to the Mississippi, and down that river to New Orleans.
Page 99 - ... and laths, which sustain the roof or covering, which is a layer of bark neatly placed, and tight enough to exclude the rain, and sometimes they cast a thin superficies of earth over all. There is but one large door, which serves at the same time to admit light from without and the smoak to escape when a fire is kindled...
Page 59 - It is astonishing, though a fact, as well as a sharp reproof to the white people, if they will allow themselves liberty to reflect and form a just estimate, and I must own elevates these people to the first rank amongst mankind, that they have been able to resist the continual efforts of the complicated host of vices, that have for ages overrun the nations of the old world...
Page 56 - The Cherokees in their dispositions and manners are grave and steady; dignified and circumspect in their deportment; rather slow and reserved in conversation; yet frank, cheerful, and humane; tenacious of the liberties and natural rights of man; secret, deliberate and determined in their councils; honest, just and liberal, and ready always to sacrifice every pleasure and gratification, even their blood, and life itself, to defend their territory and maintain their rights.
Page 57 - A proud, haughty, and arrogant race of men, they are brave and valiant in war, ambitious of conquest, restless and perpetually exercising their arms, yet magnanimous and merciful to a vanquished enemy when he submits and seeks their friendship and protection...
Page 54 - This world, as a glorious apartment of the boundless palace of the sovereign Creator, is furnished with an infinite variety of animated scenes, inexpressibly beautiful and pleasing, equally free to the inspection and enjoyment of all his creatures.