 | Henry Trumbull - Indians of North America - 1846 - 348 pages
...producing the desired effect. But when they solicit an offensive or defensive alliance with a whole nation, they send an embassy with a large belt of wampum and...was only small shells, which they picked up by the sea-coasts and on the banks of the lakes. It now consists principally of a kind of cylindrical beads,... | |
 | Henry Trumbull - America - 1846 - 354 pages
...effect. But when they solicit an offensive or defensive alliance with a whole nation, they send a$ embassy with a large belt of wampum and a bloody hatchet,...was only small shells, which they picked up by the sea-coasts and on the banks of the lakes. It now consists principally of a kind of cylindrical beads,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1849 - 276 pages
...brethren did embrace. u When they solicit the alliance, offensive or defensive, of a whole nation, they send an embassy with a large belt of wampum and...a bloody hatchet, inviting them to come and drink tho blood of their enemies. The wampum made use of on these and other occasions, before their acquaintance... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Ireland - 1853 - 404 pages
...use of on these and other occasions, before their acquaintance with the Europeans, was nothing but small shells which they picked up by the sea coasts, and on the banks of the lakes ; and now it is nothing but a kind of cylindrical beads, made of shells, white and black, which are... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 284 pages
...thy brethren did embrace. "When they solicit the alliance, offensive or defensive, of a whole nation, they send an embassy with a large belt of wampum and a bloody hatehet, inviting them to come and drink the blood of their enemies. The wampum made use of on these... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 508 pages
...brethren did embrace : When they solicit the alliance, offensive or. defensive, of a whole nation, they send an embassy with a large belt of wampum and...come and drink the blood of their enemies. The wampum made use of on these and other occ;t- > before their acquaintance with the Europeans, was nothing but... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 404 pages
...thy brethren did embrace. When they solicit the alliance, offensive or defensive, of a whole nation, they send an embassy with a large belt of wampum and...come and drink the blood of their enemies. The wampum made use of on these and other occasions, before their acquaintance with the Europeans, was nothing... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1854 - 396 pages
...of on these and other occasions, before their acquaintance with the Europeans, was nothing but email shells which they picked up by the sea coasts, and on the banks of the lakes ; and now it is nothing but a kind of cylindrical beads, made of shells, white and black, which are... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1857 - 114 pages
...brethren did embrace.} — When they solicit the alliance, offensive or defensive, of a whole nation, they send an embassy with a large belt of wampum and...come and drink the blood of their enemies. The wampum made use of on these and other occasions, before their acquaintance with the Europeans, was nothing... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Children's literature - 1858 - 120 pages
...brethren did embrace.~\ — When they solicit the alliance, offensive or defensive, of a whole nation, they send an embassy with a large belt of wampum and...come and drink the blood of their enemies. The wampum made use of on these and other occasions, before their acquaintance with the Europeans, was nothing... | |
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When they solicit the alliance, offensive or defensive, of a whole nation, they send an embassy with a large belt of wampum and a bloody hatchet, inviting them to come and drink the blood of their enemies. The wampum made use of on these and other occasions... 
