| Alexander Henry - 1809 - 364 páginas
...Lieutenant Jemette. I had, in the room in which I was, a fowlingpiece, loaded with swan-shot. This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...knees of an Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him, while yet living. At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the... | |
| 1813 - 716 páginas
...tenant Jemettee. " I had in the room in which I was a fowling-piece, loaded with swan-shot. This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...knees of an Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. " At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - 1839 - 382 páginas
...Lieutenant Jemette. I had in the room in which I was a fowling-piece, loaded with swan-shot. This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...knees of an Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the... | |
| Samuel G. Drake - 1841 - 374 páginas
...Lieutenant Jemette. I had in the room in which I was a fowling-piece, loaded with swan-shot. This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...knees of an Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. . At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1851 - 542 páginas
...of Lieutenant Jemette. I had in the room in which I was a fowling piece, loaded with swanshot This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...knees of an Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the... | |
| John Frost - 1852 - 708 páginas
...Lieutenant Jemette. I had in the room in which I was a fowling-piece, loaded with swan-shot. This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...knees of an Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the... | |
| Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - 1853 - 534 páginas
...of Lieutenant Jemette. I had in the room in which I was a fowling piece, loaded with swanshot This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...knees of an Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. the Indians nor suffering injury ; and from this circumstance I conceived... | |
| 1857 - 414 páginas
...Lieutenant Jemette. I had in the room in which I was a fowling-piece, loaded with swan-shot. This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...knees of an Indian, who. holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the... | |
| James Alvin Van Fleet - 1870 - 190 páginas
...Lieutenant Jemette. " I had, in the room in which I was, a fowling-piece, loaded with swan shot. This I immediately seized, and held it for a few minutes,...waiting to hear the drum beat to arms. In this dreadful interval.I saw several of my countrymen fall, and more than one struggling between the knees of an... | |
| 1873 - 756 páginas
...that dreadful interval he witnessed the scene of several of his countrymen falling under the tomahawk, and more than one struggling between the knees of an Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the... | |
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