 | Joseph Pritts - 1841 - 550 sider
...Mohicans. On our route betwixt the aforesaid towns, the country was chiefly black oak and white oak land, which appeared generally to be good wheat land,...He had some ashes on a piece of bark, in which he fre-- qnently dipped his fingers, in order to take the firmer hold, and so he went on, as if he had... | |
 | James Wimer - 1841 - 788 sider
...Mohicans. On our route betwixt the aforesaid towns the country was chiefly black oak and white oak land, which appeared generally to be good wheat land,...my head. He had some ashes on a piece of bark, in wljich he frequently dipped his fingers, in order to take the firmer hold, and so he went on, as if... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 774 sider
...miles above the forks, which was called Tullihas, inhabited by Dclawares, Caiighnewagas and Mohicans. The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...began to pull the hair out of my head. He had some ashe? on a piece of bark, in which he frequently dipped his fingers, in order to take the firmer hold,... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - 1849 - 742 sider
...miles above the forks, which was called Tullihas, inhabited by Delawares, Canghnewagas and Mohicans. The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a number of Indiana collected about me, and one of them began to pull the hair out of my head. He had some ashes... | |
 | James Wickes Taylor - 1854 - 604 sider
...manner of his adoption by the Indians and other ceremonies, which we prefer to give in his own words : " The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...one of them began to pull the hair out of my head. lie had some ashes on a piece of bark, in which he frequently dipped his fingers in order to take the... | |
 | Charles Hallowell Mitchener - 1876 - 376 sider
...manners and customs of the inhabitants of this territory one hundred and twenty years ago. He says: " The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...a piece of bark, in which he frequently dipped his lingers, in order to take the tinner hold, and so he went on, as if he had been plucking a turkey,... | |
 | Augustus Lynch Mason - 1884 - 1056 sider
...took him with them to a town on the Muskingum river. He describes the novel reception given him. " On my arrival at the aforesaid town, a number of Indians...been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair out of my head, except a small spot three or four inches square on my crown ; this they cut off with... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1885 - 506 sider
...is their mode of adoption : " The day after my arrival at Tullihas, an Indian town on the Muskingum, a number of Indians collected about me, and one of them began to pull the hair out of my head. He went on as if he had been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair out except a small tuft three... | |
 | 1887 - 738 sider
...of the legislature. In his "Narrative," speaking of his being taken to TuHnllas, Colonel Smith says: '•The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town...he frequently dipped his fingers, in order to take a firmer hold, and so he went on as if he had been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair clean... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1891 - 670 sider
...manner of his adoption by the Indians and other ceremonies, which we prefer to give in his own words: "The day after my arrival at the aforesaid town, a...me, and one of them began to pull the hair out of iny head. He had some ashes on a piece of bark, in which he frequently dipped his fingers in order... | |
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He had some ashes on a piece of bark, in which he frequendy dipped his fingers in order to take the firmer hold, and so he went on, as if he had been plucking a turkey, until he had all the hair clean out of my head, except a small spot about three or... 
