 | Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - Indians of North America - 1855 - 324 pages
...came thither, if he would be as good as his word. Upon this, the Indian went immediately a pauwawing as they call it, and in about half an hour, there...corn and tobacco, but none at all upon any of the neighbors, except a few drops of the skirts of the shower. The Indian for that time went away without... | |
 | Robert Beverley, Charles Campbell - Indians of North America - 1855 - 312 pages
...came thither, if he would be as good as his word. Upon this, the Indian went immediately a pauwawing as they call it, and in about half an hour, there...corn and tobacco, but none at all upon any of the neighbors, except a few drops of the skirts of the showrer. The Indian for that time went away without... | |
 | Richard Hopwood Thornton - Americanisms - 1912 - 450 pages
...word at Yale. 1659 See Notes and Queries, 10 S. xi. 487. 1705 The Indian went immediately a Pauwawing, as they call it, and in about half an hour there came up a black Cloud into the Sky. — Beverley, ' Virginia,' iii. 36. 1768 A letter " from a late London newspaper," signed Ko Powow.... | |
 | Richard Mercer Dorson - Folklore - 1977 - 351 pages
...rum. The sky being cloudless, the overseer agreed. "Upon this the Indian went immediately a-powawing, as they call it; and in about half an hour there came...corn and tobacco, but none at all upon any of the neighbors', except a few drops of the skirt of the shower." The overseer jumped on a horse and rode... | |
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Indian went immediately a-powawing, as they call it; and in about half an hour there came up a black cloud into the sky that showered down rain enough upon this gentleman's corn and tobacco, but none at all upon any of the neighbors', except a few drops... 