Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Volumen7Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1904 |
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Página 138 - Know hereby that this country is claimed by Great Britain as part of its territories, and that the NW Company of Merchants from Canada, finding the factory for this people inconvenient for them, do hereby intend to erect a factory in this place for the commerce of the country around.
Página 111 - ... disposed of; that is, if he or she dies in summer, the body is carelessly buried; but if in winter, a stone is tied about the neck, and the body thrown into the river, and none but slaves ever touch a slave after death. When the salmon make their first appearance in the river, they are never allowed to be cut crosswise, nor boiled, but roasted; nor are they allowed to be sold without the heart being first taken out, nor to be kept over night; but must be all consumed or eaten the day they are...
Página 218 - M'Kenzie to understand that if he desisted they would do the business themselves, and more effectually. M'Kenzie, after some feigned reluctance, at last agreed to the chiefs' proposition. They then asked him to withdraw; but this he peremptorily refused, knowing from experience that they were least exposed in the camp; for Indians are always averse to hostilities taking place in their camp, in the midst of their women and children. Had the Indians foreseen or been aware of the intention of the whites,...
Página 122 - Indian villages, at the far end, with up hills, down hills, and side hills most of the way, besides a confusion of rocks, gullies, and thick woods from end to end. To say that there is not a worse path under the sun would perhaps be going a step too far, but to say that for difficulty and danger few could equal it, would be saying but the truth. Certainly nothing could be more discouraging than our present situation: obstacles on every side, by land, by water, and from the Indians, all hostile alike....
Página 154 - ... the natives in general that gifts, consisting of goods and implements of all kinds, were forthwith to be poured in upon them; that the great white chief knew their wants, and was just about to supply them with everything their hearts could desire; that the whites had hitherto cheated the Indians, by selling goods, in place of making presents to them as directed by the great white chief. These stories, so agreeable to the Indian ear, were circulated far and wide, and not only received as truths,...
Página 39 - ... of success at the end of the five years' trial. The only exceptions were Mr. Robert Stuart and myself, who were to have our promotion at the end of the third year. From the proportion of interest, or number of shares in the hands of the stockholder and his representative, it will appear evident that the other partners, however unanimous they might be, could never have gained a majority of votes in any case over those which might have been by proxy appointed to represent Astor. At the head depot,...
Página 137 - The men were generally tall, raw-boned, and well dressed ; having all buffalo-robes, deer-skin leggings, very white, and most of them garnished with porcupine quills. Their shoes were also trimmed and painted red ; — altogether, their appearance indicated wealth. Their voices were strong and masculine, and their language differed from any we had heard before. The women wore garments of well-dressed deerskin down to their heels ; many of them richly garnished with beads, higuas, and other trinkets...
Página 138 - On the 14th, early in the morning, what did we see waving triumphantly in the air, at the confluence of the two great branches, but a British flag, hoisted in the middle of the Indian camp, planted there by Mr. Thompson as he passed, with a written paper, laying claim to the country north of the forks, as British territory.
Página 275 - Rapids on the south; from thence, embracing a space of upwards of one hundred miles in breadth, it runs almost due north until it reaches the She Whaps, making a distance of more than five hundred miles in length; within this line the nation branches out into twelve tribes, under different names. These form, as it were, so many states belonging to the same union, and are governed by petty chiefs, who are, in a manner, independent; nevertheless, all are ready to unite against a common enemy.
Página 70 - ... whom choice or accident has thrown on these islands. To those who behave well the King allots land, and gives them slaves to work it. He protects both them and their property, and is loth ever to punish an evildoer. Near Ourourah we saw eight or ten white men comfortably settled, and upwards of thirty others naked and wild among the natives, wretched, unprincipled vagabonds, of almost every nation in Europe, without clothing and without either house or home.