There were heaps of earth also, which, being dug open, proved to be Indian graves, containing bows and flint-headed spears and arrows; for the Indians buried the dead warrior's weapons along with him.
In 1636, and the following year, there was the most dreadful war that had yet occurred between the Indians and the English.
The immense droves of horses owned by the Indians consumed the herbage of the surrounding hills; while to drive them to any distant pasturage, in a neighborhood abounding with lurking and deadly enemies, would be to endanger the loss both of man and beast.
Even in situations of danger, the Indians rarely set guards over their camp at night, intrusting that office entirely to their vigilant and well-trained dogs.
This promising beginning was soon overcast with a cloud of adversity; for upon the tenth day of October, the rear of our company was attacked by a number of Indians, who killed six, and wounded one man.
side of Kentucke River, from the Cherokee Indians, to attend their treaty at Wataga, in March, 1775, to negotiate with them, and, mention the boundaries of the purchase.
The
Indians, as I saw on looking closer, had small hand-drums slung in front of them.
The
Indians were Araucanians from the south of Chile; several hundreds in number, and highly disciplined.
As the valuable furs soon became scarce in the neighborhood of the settlements, the
Indians of the vicinity were stimulated to take a wider range in their hunting expeditions; they were generally accompanied on these expeditions by some of the traders or their dependents, who shared in the toils and perils of the chase, and at the same time made themselves acquainted with the best hunting and trapping grounds, and with the remote tribes, whom they encouraged to bring their peltries to the settlements.
He made all the
Indians leave us in the night, though many of them were willing to stay and fill the contract they had made.
Looking over an ancient map, it was ascertained that a tribe of
Indians, called "Les Horicans" by the French, existed in the neighborhood of this beautiful sheet of water.
Sire," returned the
Indian, "it is not of his outward form that I would speak, but of the use that I can make of him.
