 | Benjamin Franklin French - America - 1846 - 246 pages
...clean the path before him. When he dies they sacrifice his youngest wife, his house-steward (mailre d'hotel), and a hundred men, to accompany him into...temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell (vignof), and plaited round with the hair of their enemies in a plait as thick as an arm, and about... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - America - 1846 - 258 pages
...path before him. When he dies they sacrifice his youngest wife, his house-steward (maitre iThoiel), and a hundred men, to accompany him into the other...temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell (vignof), and plaited round with the hair of their enemies in a plait as thick as an arm, and about... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - Biography & Autobiography - 1881 - 720 pages
...the house of the chief, and similar to it, except that three eagles are placed on this temple, which look towards the rising sun. The temple is surrounded...temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell plaited round with the hair of their enemies, in a plait as thick as an arm, and about twenty fathoms... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - History - 1897 - 524 pages
...the house of the chief, and similar to it, except that three eagles are placed on this temple, which look towards the rising sun. The temple is surrounded...wood, on which is a great shell (vignot) and plaited around with the hair of their enemies, in a plait as thick as an arm, and about twenty fathoms (toises)... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - America - 1897 - 520 pages
...the house of the chief, and similar to it, except that three eagles are placed on this temple, which look towards the rising sun. The temple is surrounded...temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell (vignof) and plaited around with the hair of their enemies, in a plait as thick as an arm, and about... | |
 | America - 1911 - 492 pages
...of the chief, and similar to it, except that three eagles are placed on this temple, who look toward the rising sun. The temple is surrounded with strong...block of wood, on which is a great shell (vignot), and platted round with the hair of their enemies in a plait as thick as the arm and about 20 fathoms (toiacn)... | |
 | Isaac Joslin Cox - Explorers - 1905 - 338 pages
...clean the path before him. When he dies they sacrifice his youngest wife, his house-steward (mattre d'hotel), and a hundred men, to accompany him into...temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell (wgnot), and plaited round with the hair of their enemies in a plait as thick as an arm, and about... | |
 | John Reed Swanton - America - 1911 - 490 pages
...who look toward the rising sun. The. temple is surrounded with strong mnd walls, in which are lixed spikes, on which they place the heads of their enemies...temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell (ri9nut). and plaited round with the hair of their enemies in a plait as thick as the arm and about... | |
 | Louise Phelps Kellogg - History - 1917 - 418 pages
...nation, to accompany him into the other world. They have a form of worship, and adore the sun. They have a temple opposite the house of the chief, and similar...temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell plaited round with the hair of their enemies in a plait as thick as an arm and about twenty fathoms... | |
 | Louise Phelps Kellogg - History - 1917 - 422 pages
...surrounded with strong mud walls, in which are fixed spikes on which they place the heads of then- enemies whom they sacrifice to the sun. At the door...temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell plaited round with the hair of then- enemies in a plait as thick as an arm and about twenty fathoms... | |
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The temple is .surrounded with strong mud walls, in which are fixed spikes, on which they place the heads of their enemies whom they sacrifice to the sun. At the door of the temple is a block of wood, on which is a great shell... 
