Adair's History
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共 54 段- “April 28, 1761. A memorial of James Adair was presented to
- Was there a publication of his book in Boston in 1770? In th
- Displaying their Love to their Country—Their Martial 405
- Stroudwater, as Wm. Byrd II, called it at an earlier day; cl
- The American Indians do not believe the SUN to be any bigger
- If this first institution of the cherubic emblems was not re
- There is not, perhaps, any one language or speech, except th
- When we consider that the period of the adjurations, accordi
- To elucidate the aforesaid remarks, it may not be amiss to o
- _Páàh_ signifies to raise the voice, _Vocifero_—for פי, _Phi
- I shall here give a specimen of the Hebrew method of countin
- In Tymáhse, a lower Cheerake town, lived one of their repute
- The eldest of the priests leads the sacred dance, a-head of
- Their hearts are enlivened with joy at the appearance of the
- Though they believe the upper heavens to be inhabited by _Is
- One of the Cheeràke traders, who now resides in the Choktah
- The more religious, or the least corrupted, of the various r
- When I asked the Chikkasah the reason of the inequality of t
- The Indians use no stated ceremony in immolating their devot
- Within a day’s march of home, he sent a runner a-head with t
- They imagined incense also to be a sure means to banish the
- To perpetuate the memory of any remarkable warriors killed i
- This tradition is corroborated by a current report of the ol
- He says, the Indian natives, from Florida to Panama, had lit
- Monsieur de Poutrincourt says, that, when the Canada Indians
- Where the land is capable of cultivation, it would produce a
- The description the Indians give us of their colour, is as v
- Previous to this alarming crisis, while the Indians were app
- Their country is situated, nearly in the centre, between the
- Other instances may be related, but these will suffice to sh
- In the year 1749, when I was going to Charles-town, under th
- The Choktah flatten their foreheads with a bag of sand, whic
- The following relation will serve to display what should be
- The Choktah are the craftiest, and most ready-witted, of any
- Formerly, by virtue of the pressing engagement of a prime ma
- Our Choktah traders having been thus induced to return to th
- The red ambassador spoke much of the kindly disposition of t
- Not long after the Chikkasah returned homeward, I advertised
- The Chikkasah[200] are now settled between the heads of two
- It would be a service, worthy of a public-spirited gentleman
- In brief, able superintendants of Indian affairs, and who wi
- The common number of an Indian war company, is only from twe
- A party of the Senekah Indians came to war against the Katah
- They have a surprising method of fishing under the edges of
- The traders hot-houses are appropriated to their young-risin
- They make beautiful stone pipes;[264] and the Cheerake the b
- The old men tell us, they remember our colonies in their inf
- All those beloved men, who do not join in religious communio
- Called by the English “Little Carpenter”; he was the greates
- The South Carolina government urged that of New York to chec
- “Not so numerous as the Choctaws, but more terrible on accou
- The advantages of mutual affection between Great Britain, an
- The prodigious number of fertile hills lying near some of th
- Health of Indians, 240