The Canadian North-west: Its History and Its Troubles, from the Early Days of the Fur-trade to the Era of the Railway and the SettlerRose Publishing Company, 1885 - 408 sider Includes appendix, The trial of Louis Riel: p.391-408. |
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... enclosure . At each corner was a strong bastion , " The Story of a Dead Monopoly . " Cornhill Magazine , August , 1870 . built of squared logs , and pierced for guns which 16 THE NORTH - WEST : ITS HISTORY AND ITS TROUBLES .
... enclosure . At each corner was a strong bastion , " The Story of a Dead Monopoly . " Cornhill Magazine , August , 1870 . built of squared logs , and pierced for guns which 16 THE NORTH - WEST : ITS HISTORY AND ITS TROUBLES .
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... guns which could sweep every side of the fort . Inside this picket was a gallery run- ning right round the enclosure , just high enough for a man's head to be level with the top of the fence . At intervals , all along the side of the ...
... guns which could sweep every side of the fort . Inside this picket was a gallery run- ning right round the enclosure , just high enough for a man's head to be level with the top of the fence . At intervals , all along the side of the ...
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... gun and five charges of powder and ball . " After many hardships , he reached Sault Ste Marie , and here determined to go to the English post on Hudson Bay . He left the Sault in the beginning of the winter of 1739 , and , as we are ...
... gun and five charges of powder and ball . " After many hardships , he reached Sault Ste Marie , and here determined to go to the English post on Hudson Bay . He left the Sault in the beginning of the winter of 1739 , and , as we are ...
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... gun for 25 ; a pistol for 10 ; a common hat , with white lace ( ! ) 7 : an axe , 4 ; a bill - hook , 1 ; a gallon of brandy , 4 ; a checked shirt , 7 ; —all of which are sold at a monstrous profit , even to 2000 per cent ...
... gun for 25 ; a pistol for 10 ; a common hat , with white lace ( ! ) 7 : an axe , 4 ; a bill - hook , 1 ; a gallon of brandy , 4 ; a checked shirt , 7 ; —all of which are sold at a monstrous profit , even to 2000 per cent ...
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... gun and some ammunition . The Indians had about forty - five pound weight of pemmican to carry , beside their guns , & c . , with which they were very much dissatisfied , and if they had dared would have instantly left us . In this ...
... gun and some ammunition . The Indians had about forty - five pound weight of pemmican to carry , beside their guns , & c . , with which they were very much dissatisfied , and if they had dared would have instantly left us . In this ...
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The Canadian North-west: Its History and Its Troubles, from the Early Days ... Graeme Mercer Adam Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1885 |
The Canadian North-west: Its History and Its Troubles, from the Early Days ... Graeme Mercer Adam Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1885 |
The Canadian North-west: Its History and Its Troubles, from the Early Days ... Graeme Mercer Adam Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1885 |
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Side 376 - Finds comfort in himself and in his cause ; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause : This is the happy warrior ; this is he That every man in arms should wish to be.
Side 216 - ... hear The sound of that advancing multitude Which soon shall fill these deserts. From the ground Comes up the laugh of children, the soft voice Of maidens, and the sweet and solemn hymn Of Sabbath worshippers. The low of herds Blends with the rustling of the heavy grain Over the dark brown furrows. All at once A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream, And I am in the •wilderness alone.
Side 216 - A wilder hunting-ground. The beaver builds No longer by these streams, but far away, On waters whose blue surface ne'er gave back The white man's face — among Missouri's springs, And pools whose issues swell the Oregon — He rears his little Venice.
Side 215 - The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests.
Side 186 - Kent, in free and common soccage, and not in capite or by knight's service ; yielding and paying yearly to us, our heirs and successors, for the same, two elks and two black beavers, whensoever and as often as we, our heirs and successors, shall happen to enter into the said countries, territories and regions hereby granted...
Side 28 - There the passions cramp'd no longer shall have scope and breathing space; I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run, Catch the wild goat by the hair, and hurl their lances in the sun; Whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks, Not with blinded eyesight poring over miserable books — Fool, again the dream, the fancy!
Side 46 - 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 Indian, who, holding him in this manner, scalped him while yet living. At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the enemy, and sensible of course that no effort of my own unassisted arm could...
Side 42 - Englishman, although you have conquered the French, you have not yet conquered us! We are not your slaves. These lakes, these woods and mountains were left to us by our ancestors. They are our inheritance; and we will part with them to none.
Side 404 - THE PRISONER'S SPEECH. COL. RICHARDSON asked the prisoner if he had anything to say why the sentence of the Court should not be passed upon him?
Side 216 - Thus change the forms of being. Thus arise Races of living things, glorious in strength, And perish, as the quickening breath of God Fills them, or is withdrawn. The red man, too, Has left the blooming wilds he ranged so long, And, nearer to the Rocky Mountains, sought A wilder hunting-ground.