Letters from North America: Written During a Tour in the United States and Canada ...Hurst, Robinson, & Company, 1824 - Canada |
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Page 175 - scene is worth a voyage across the " Atlantic; yet here, as in the neighbourhood " of the Natural Bridge, are people, who have " passed their lives within half a dozen miles, " and have never been to survey these
Page 307 - who have been recently separated from each other. In traversing the regions of the New World, we imagine that we find more traditions, a greater fields in depth appeared so strange, as to remind me strongly of England; cultivation seldom extending in a great part, even of the cleared country,
Page 130 - offending wife. The murderer is now executed by public authority, the law of private retaliation becoming gradually obsolete. Stealing is punished, for the first offence, by whipping ; for the second, by the loss of the ears ; for the third, by death : the punishment having no relation to the amount stolen. My host remembers when there was no law against
Page 244 - had never occurred to him to inquire the reason. My half-breed Choctaw also informed me, that there were tribes or families among the Indians, somewhat similar to the Scottish clans ; such as, the Panther Family, the Bird Family, the
Page 256 - I was told that they bury their dead in their houses. While getting a cup of coffee at Amubee's, a full-blooded Chickasaw, a little negro girl, the only person about the house who could speak English, said, " Master's wife is lying behind you." On looking round, I saw nothing but a bed;
Page 231 - its proximity to a little river of that name which falls into the Yazoo,) is the religious instruction of the Indians. The Missionaries are, however, aware, that this must necessarily be preceded or accompanied by their civilization ; and that mere preaching to the adult Indians, though partially
Page 234 - with their little babes ; in tents, which cannot resist the rain, here falling in torrents, such as I never saw in England ; within sound of the nightly howling of wolves, and occasionally visited by panthers, which have approached almost to the
Page 310 - with the White children, who, however, occasionally demonstrate their acknowledged superiority, though less frequently and less peevishly than I should have expected ; at least as far as fell under my observation. The very youngest of them appear to me to view a White gentleman with some distrust, and to be daunted
Page 235 - obliged to go 30 or 40 for provisions,) without swimming their horses over four or five creeks. Yet, as all these inconveniences are suffered by others with cheerfulness, from worldly motives, they would wish them to be suppressed in the Missionary reports, if they
Page 131 - generosity were then their characteristic virtues. A desire of gain, caught from the whites, has chilled their liberality ; and abused credulity, has taught them suspicion and deceit. He considers them still attached to the English, although disappointed in the little assistance which they have derived from them in late wars. This, however, they attribute rather to the distance of the British, which renders them less