| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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