 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1828 - 602 pages
...institutions of various- kinds. They were considerably acquainted with the use of their own medicinal herbs. They had an established worship, and a temple dedicated to the 'Great Spirit,' on the altar of which burned a perpetual fire. Their chiefs, like the Incas of Peru, derived their origin from the sun; and... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 632 pages
...polished people, in comparison with their savage neighbors. They had laws, an established worship, a temple dedicated to the Great Spirit, on the altar of which burned a perpetual fire, and chiefs who derived their origin from the sun. Tb°- -had treated the French... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1837 - 528 pages
...polished people, in comparison with their savage neighbours. They hail laws, an established worship, a temple dedicated to the Great Spirit, on the altar of which burned a perpetual fire, and chiefs who derived their origin from the sun. They had treated tile French... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 1018 pages
...polished people, in comÎiarison with their savage neighbours. They hud aws, an established worship, a temple dedicated to the Great Spirit, on the altar of which burned a perpetual fire, and chiefs who derived their origin from the sun. They had treated the French... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - United States - 1847 - 1076 pages
...institutions of various kinds. They were considerably acquainted with the use of their own medicinal herbs. They had an established worship, and a temple dedicated to the " Great Spirit," on the altar of which burned a perpetual fire. Their chiefs, like the Incas of Peru, derived their origin from the sun, and... | |
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Spirit, on the altar of which burned a perpetual fire, and chiefs who derived their origin from the sun. They had treated the French colonists with great kindness, and had been courted by them on account of their power. (See Louisiana.) A quarrel having... 