Native Villages and Village Sites East of the Mississippi

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 111 sidor
 

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Sida 24 - The best of their houses are covered very neatly, tight and warm, with barks of trees, slipped from their bodies at...
Sida 22 - The houses were made with long young sapling trees bended and both ends stuck into the ground. They were made round like unto an arbor, and covered down to the ground with thick and well wrought mats; and the door was not over a yard high, made of a mat to open. The chimney was a wide open hole in the top, for which they had a mat to cover it close when they pleased. One might stand and go upright in them. In the midst of them...
Sida 105 - Relation or Journall of the beginning and proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plimoth in New England.
Sida 34 - Occam ; and the evening following we came to an island which they call Roanoke, distant from the harbour by which we entered seven leagues ; and at the north end thereof was a village of nine houses, built of cedar, and fortified round about with sharp trees to keep out their enemies, and the entrance into it made like a turnpike, very artificially.
Sida 40 - How beautiful the sun is, O frenchman, when thou comest to visit us! All our village awaits thee, and thou shalt enter all our Cabins in peace.
Sida 39 - After proceeding 40 leagues on this same route, we arrived at the mouth of our river; and, at 42 and a half degrees of latitude, we safely entered Missisipi on the 17th of June, with a joy that I cannot express.• Section 4.
Sida 36 - At heade sat a woman, at his feete another, on each side sitting uppon a Matte uppon the ground were raunged his chiefe men on each side the fire, tenne in a ranke, and behinde them as many yong women, each a great Chaine of white Beades over their shoulders...
Sida 90 - Their houses are not many together, for in one house an hundred of them do lodge; they being made much like a great barn...
Sida 39 - This Village Consists of three Nations who have gathered there - Miamis, Maskoutens, and Kikabous. The former are the most civil, the most liberal, and the most shapely. They wear two long locks over their ears, which give them a pleasing appearance. They are regarded as warriors, and rarely undertake expeditions without being successful. They are very docile, and listen quietly to What is said to Them; and they appeared so eager to Hear Father Alloues when he Instructed them that they gave Him but...
Sida 76 - I saw no person set fire to it; there might have been fire left on the hearth, however I neither saw nor smelt fire or smoke until the blaze instantly ascended upwards) which gradually and slowly creeps round the centre pillar, with the course of the sun, feeding on the dry Canes, and affords a cheerful, gentle and sufficient light until the circle is consumed, when the council breaks up.

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