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" Their houses are mats or barks of trees, set on poles in the fashion of an English barn, but out of the power of the winds, for they are hardly higher than a man. "
The American Naturalist - Page 431
1896
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The American Naturalist, Volume 30

Biology - 1896 - 1172 pages
..." Their houses were made of mats or barks of trees set on poles, in the fashion of an English barn, but out of the power of the winds for they are hardly...squatting in the suburbs of Philadelphia about 1770-80, in Watson Vol. II. p. 31 where a person 80 years old in 1842 relates that he well remembers seeing colonies...
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On the Frontier with Colonel Antes: Or, The Struggle for Supremacy of the ...

Edwin MacMinn - Indians of North America - 1900 - 602 pages
...rarely older. "Their houses are mats, or barks of trees set on poles in the fashion of an English barn, but out of the power of the winds, for they are hardly higher than a man. They lie on reeds or grass. In travel they lodge in the woods about a great fire with the mantie of...
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William Penn as the Founder of Two Commonwealths

Augustus C. Buell - Pennsylvania - 1904 - 422 pages
...rarely older. Their houses are mats or barks of trees, set on poles in the fashion of an English barn, but out of the power of the winds, for they are hardly higher than a man. They lie on reeds or grass. In travel they lodge in the woods about a great fire, with the mantle of...
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The Great Sioux Nation

Fred Malon Hans - Dakota Indians - 1907 - 588 pages
...seldom older. "Their houses are mats or barks of trees, set on poles, in the fashion of English barns, out of the power of the winds, for they are hardly higher than a man. They lie on reeds or grass; in traveling they lie in the woods, about a great fire, with the mantle...
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Thomas Pownall: M. P., F. R. S., Governor of Massachusetts Bay, Author of ...

Charles Assheton Whately Pownall - Massachusetts - 1908 - 622 pages
...sea. . . . Their houses are mats, or barks of trees set on poles in the fashion of an English barn, but out of the power of the winds for they are hardly higher than a man ; they lie on reeds or grass. In travel they lodge in the woods about a great fire. . . . Their diet...
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Thomas Pownall: M.P., F.R.S., Governor of Massachusetts Bay, Author of The ...

Charles Assheton Whately Pownall - Colonial administrators - 1805 - 620 pages
...sea, . . . Their houses are mats, or barks of trees set on poles in the fashion of an English barn, but out of the power of the winds for they are hardly higher than a man ; they lie on reeds or grass. In travel they lodge in the woods about a great fire. . . . Their diet...
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Wanamaker Primer of the North American Indian: The First American and First ...

Indians of North America - 1910 - 104 pages
...rarely older. "Their houses are mats or barks of trees, set on po'es in th3 fashion of an English barn, but out of the power of the winds, for they are hardly higher than a man. They lie on reeds or grass. In travel they lodge in the woods about a great fire, with the mantle of...
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Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware ..., Volume 12

Albert Cook Myers - Delaware - 1912 - 512 pages
...1685. XV. Their Houses are Mats, or Barks of Trees set on Poles, in the fashion of an English Barn, but out of the power of the Winds, for they are hardly higher than a Man; they lie on Reeds or Grass. In Travel they lodge in the Woods about a great Fire, with the Mantle of...
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William Penn

Rupert Sargent Holland - 1915 - 206 pages
...them. . . . "Their houses are mats or barks of trees, set on poles in the fashion of an English barn, but out of the power of the winds, for they are hardly higher than a man. They lie on reeds or grass. In travel they lodge in the woods about a great fire, with the mantle of...
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History of Paterson and Its Environs (the Silk City): Historical ..., Volume 1

William Nelson, Charles Anthony Shriner - Paterson (N.J.) - 1920 - 472 pages
...in 1683: "Their Houses are Mats, or Barks of Trees, set on Poles, in the fashion of an English Barn, but out of the power of the Winds, for they are hardly higher than a man ; they lie on Reeds or Grass." Sometimes young trees would be bent down toward a common centre and...
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