Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors, المجلد 73U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - 492 من الصفحات Deals with all nations once belonging to the Creek Confederacy: Hitchiti, Alabama, and Choctaw groups; Tuskegee, Guale, Yamasee, Cusabo, Chatot, Osochi; Muskogee and Natchez branches; Uchean and Timuquanan stock; South Florida Indians; Tamahiti. |
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الصفحة 34
... horses . They reached the North American coast at the mouth of a river calcu- lated by them to be in north latitude 33 ° 40 ' , and they called it the Jordan - from the name of one of Ayllon's captains , it is said . Here , however ...
... horses . They reached the North American coast at the mouth of a river calcu- lated by them to be in north latitude 33 ° 40 ' , and they called it the Jordan - from the name of one of Ayllon's captains , it is said . Here , however ...
الصفحة 42
... horses , the other denies . The Dean said : " I have never spoken to anybody who has seen these horses , " to which Ayllon answered , “ I have heard it told by many people , " while Francisco Chicorana , although he was present , was ...
... horses , the other denies . The Dean said : " I have never spoken to anybody who has seen these horses , " to which Ayllon answered , “ I have heard it told by many people , " while Francisco Chicorana , although he was present , was ...
الصفحة 63
... Horse - feet ; The Rivers stored plentifully with Fish that we saw play and leap . There are great Marshes , but most as far as we saw little worth , except for a Root that grows in them the Indians make good Bread of . . . The Natives ...
... Horse - feet ; The Rivers stored plentifully with Fish that we saw play and leap . There are great Marshes , but most as far as we saw little worth , except for a Root that grows in them the Indians make good Bread of . . . The Natives ...
الصفحة 79
... horses through the midst of the thickest forests . And the Indian women continued all the rest of the day in tears so sad and lamentable that nothing more was possible , and in such fury they clutched the arms of the young girls which ...
... horses through the midst of the thickest forests . And the Indian women continued all the rest of the day in tears so sad and lamentable that nothing more was possible , and in such fury they clutched the arms of the young girls which ...
الصفحة 99
... horse , and being accompanied with several gentlemen volunteers , intended for the Yamassee Town , in order to have an impartial account of their complaints and grievances , to redress the same , and to rectify any misunderstanding or ...
... horse , and being accompanied with several gentlemen volunteers , intended for the Yamassee Town , in order to have an impartial account of their complaints and grievances , to redress the same , and to rectify any misunderstanding or ...
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1st sess 23d Cong Abihka Adair Alabama Amer Apalachee Apalachicola appears arrows Augustine Ayer Coll band Barcia Bartram Bourne cacique called Calusa census Chatot Chattahoochee Chattahoochee River Cherokee Chiaha Chickasaw chief Chiscas Choctaw coast Coosa Coweta Coza Creek freedmen Creek towns Cusabo enemy English Eufaula evidently expedition Florida freedmen French Gatschet Georgia given governor Guale Hawkins Hist Hitchiti horses Ibid Indian Office Island Juan Kasihta killed Koasati land later Laudonnière leagues living Lower Creeks mentioned Mikasuki miles mission Mobile Moyne Muskogee Narr nation Potano probably Prov province Ranjel Rept River San Pedro Santa Elena Savannah Sawokli says Schoolcraft Seminole Serrano y Sanz settled settlement Shawnee side Soto South Carolina Spaniards Spanish Tallapoosa Tallapoosa River Tawasa Timucua traders tribe Tukabahchee United States Indian Upper Creeks village warriors Westo women Yamasee Yamasee war Yuchi
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الصفحة 353 - ... arquebuse can be aimed at them. Before a Christian can make a single shot with either, an Indian will discharge three or four arrows ; and he seldom misses of his object. Where the arrow meets with no armour, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a crossbow. Their bows are very perfect ; the arrows are made of certain canes, like reeds, very heavy, and so stiff that one of them, when sharpened, will pass through a target. Some are pointed with the bone of a fish, sharp...
الصفحة 371 - Then the cupbearer brings the hot drink in a capacious shell, first to the chief, and then, as the chief directs, to the rest in their order, in the same shell. They esteem this drink so highly, that no one is allowed to drink it in council unless he has proved himself a brave warrior.
الصفحة 305 - They are in confederacy with the Creeks, but do not mix with them; and, on account of their -numbers and strength, are of importance enough to excite and draw upon them the jealousy of the whole Muscogulge confederacy, and are usually at variance, yet are wise enough to unite against a common enemy, to support the interest and glory of the general Creek confederacy.
الصفحة 349 - Chief's house stood near the beach, upon a very high mount made by hand for defence ; at the other end of the town was a temple, on the top of which perched a wooden fowl with gilded eyes...
الصفحة 153 - Governor, presently as he found himself in the field, called for a horse, and, with some followers, returned and lanced two or three of the Indians; the rest, going back into the town, shot arrows from the palisade. Those who would venture on their nimbleness came out a stone's throw from behind it, to fight, retiring from time to time, when they were set upon. At the time of the affray there was a friar, a clergyman, a servant of the Governor, and a female slave in the town, who, having no time...
الصفحة 105 - I had taken up my lodging on the border of an ancient burying ground; sepulchres or tumuli of the Yamasees, who were here slain by the Creeks in the last decisive battle, the Creeks having driven them into this point, between the doubling of the river, where few of them escaped the fury of the conquerors.
الصفحة 263 - Cypress bark or shingles; every habitation consists of four oblong square houses, of one story, of the same form and dimensions, and so situated as to form an exact square, encompassing an area or courtyard of about a quarter of an acre of ground, leaving an entrance into it at each corner.
الصفحة 292 - Ambassadour, attended by five Indians, whose faces were coloured with auripigmentum (in which mineral these parts do much abound) was received, and that night invited to a ball of their fashion ; but in the height of their mirth and dancing, by a smoke contrived for that purpose, the room was suddenly darkned, and for what cause I know not, the Rickohockan and his retinue barbarously murthered.
الصفحة 377 - ... they turn their backs they are presently upon them. They avoid nothing/ more easily than the flight of an arrow. They never remain quiet, but are continually running, traversing from place to > place, so that neither crossbow nor arquebuse can be aimed at them. Before a Christian can make a single shot with either, / an Indian will discharge three or four arrows ; and he seldom misses of his object. Where the arrow meets with no armor, it pierces as deeply as the shaft from a crossbow.
الصفحة 74 - Land be overgrown with weeds through their lazinesse, yet they have two or three crops of Corn a year, as the Indians themselves inform us.