 | Richard Snowden - America - 1805 - 398 pages
...boys, they go a fishing till ripe for the woods, which is about fifteen ; they then hunt ; and after having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may marry ; otherwise it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their mothers, and... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 350 pages
...round their waist till they are big; if boys, they go a fishing till ripe for the woods, which is about fifteen ; then they hunt, and having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may inarry, else it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their moihers, and help... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indians of North America - 1824 - 480 pages
...round their waist till they are big; if boys, they go a fishing till ripe for the woods, which is about fifteen ; then they hunt, and having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may marry, else it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their mothers, and help... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1825 - 632 pages
...boys, they go a fishing till ripe for the woods, which is about fifteen ; then they hunt, and after having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may marry, else it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their mothers. and help... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1830 - 522 pages
...while they are young1, to harden them. They wrap them up in a clout, and lay them on a streighl thin board, a little more than the length or breadth of...fifteen, then they hunt; and having given some proofs of iheir manhood by a good return of skins, may marry, else 'tis shame to think of a wife. The girls live... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1830 - 902 pages
...they go a fishing till ripe for the woods ; •which is about fifteeen ; then they hunt, and after having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may marry ; else it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their mothers, and help... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1832 - 244 pages
...boys, they go a fishing till ripe for the woods, which is about fifteen ; then they hunt, and after having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may marry ; else it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their mothers, and help... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1833 - 336 pages
...boys, they go a fishing till ripe for the woods, which is about fifteen ; then they hunt, and after having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may marry ; else it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their mothers, and help... | |
 | Nathaniel Parker Willis - Indians of North America - 1840 - 246 pages
...boys, they go a fishing till ripe for the woods, which is about fifteen ; then they hunt, and after having given some proofs of their manhood by a good return of skins, they may marry ; else it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their mothers, and help... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - Quakers - 1841 - 552 pages
...boys, they go a fishing till ripe for the woods, which is about fifteen ; then they hunt, and after having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may marry, else it is a shame to think of a wife. The girls stay with their mothers, and help... | |
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... having given some proofs of their manhood, by a good return of skins, they may marry; else it is a shame to think of a wife. 
