 | Thomas Falconer - Louisiana - 1844 - 212 pages
...plan was broken up. We continued our route, in order to join the savages and found them 30 leagues * " The term cache, meaning a place of concealment, was...goods to be concealed are carefully stowed away." — Greyg's Commerce of the Prairies, vol. i, p. 68. above the village. When they saw us they thought... | |
 | Thomas Falconer - Louisiana - 1844 - 224 pages
...join the savages and found them 30 leagues * " The term cache, meaning a place of concealment, wa» originally used by the French Canadian trappers and...stowed away." — Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, yoL i, p. 68. above the village. When they saw us they thought we were Iroquois, and put themselves... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - Indians of North America - 1845 - 344 pages
...territory. The term cache, meaning a place of concealment, was originally used by the Canadian French trappers and traders. It is made by digging a hole...the goods to be concealed are carefully stowed away ; and the aperture is then so effectually closed as to protect ANTIQUITY OF THE CACHE. 69 them from... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - History - 1845 - 344 pages
...territory. The term cache, meaning a place of concealment, was originally used by the Canadian French trappers and traders. It is made by digging a hole...the goods to be concealed are carefully stowed away ; and the aperture is then so effectually closed as to protect ANTIQUITY OF THE CACHE. 69 them from... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - America - 1846 - 246 pages
...a boat to descend the river. He sent a Father Recollet, with the Sieur Deau, to discover the na* " The term cache, meaning a place of concealment, was...Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, vol. i., p. 68. tion of the Sioux, 400 leagues from the Illinois on the Mississippi River southwards, a river that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin French - America - 1846 - 258 pages
...term cache, meaning a place of concealment, was originally used by . •lheiFi£n°cli'Cjrt)Ji(Jiap trappers and traders. It is made by digging a hole in the • ground, ^o»e«V6at'2i ^e shape-'oT a; jug, which is lined with dry sticks, grass, • or.aoythjng^else Ifia't... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - Indians of North America - 1849 - 338 pages
...territory. The term cache, meaning a place of concealment, was originally used by the Canadian French trappers and traders. It is made by digging a hole...the goods to be concealed are carefully stowed away ; and the aperture is then so effectually closed as to protect them from the rains. In caching, a great... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - Indians of North America - 1856 - 664 pages
...territory. The term caclie, meaning a place of concealment, was originally used by the Canadian French trappers and traders. It is made by digging a hole...the goods to be concealed are carefully stowed away ; and the aperture is then so effectually closed as to protect toem from the rains. In caching, a great... | |
 | Henry Inman - Frontier and pioneer life - 1898 - 540 pages
...every character is called caching, from the French word "to hide." Gregg thus describes it: "The cache is made by digging a hole in the ground, somewhat...the goods to be concealed are carefully stowed away; and the aperture is then so effectually closed as to protect them from the rains. In caching, a great... | |
 | John Harvey Whitson - California - 1903 - 336 pages
...voyageurs and mountain men called it. The cache, taken from the French word cacher, " to hide," was made by digging a hole in the ground somewhat in the shape of a jug. When excavated, this hole was lined with dry sticks and dry grass to protect its contents from dampness,... | |
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The term cache, meaning a place of concealment, was originally used by the Canadian French trappers and traders. It is made by digging a hole in the ground, somewhat in the shape of a jug, which is lined with dry sticks, grass, or anything else that will... 
