| John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 258 σελίδες
...upon which all the natives live when hunting is scarce in these quarters. * * * It happens frequently that pieces of copper are found, weighing from ten...pounds. I have seen several such pieces in the hands of savages; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given... | |
| John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 262 σελίδες
...live when hunting is scarce in these quarters. * * * It happens frequently that pieces of copper aф found, weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have seen several such pieces in the hands of savages; and since .they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given... | |
| John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 258 σελίδες
...scarce in these quarters. * * * It happens frequently that pieces ,of copper are found, weighingfrom ten to twenty pounds. I have seen several such pieces in the hands of savages; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given... | |
| Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 440 σελίδες
...recent event, is evident from the following description of Allouez. He says: " It frequently happens that pieces of copper are found, weighing from ten...savages ; and, since they are very superstitious, they regard them as divinities, or as presents given to them to promote their happiness, by the gods who... | |
| Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 418 σελίδες
...recent event, is evident from the following description of Allouez. He says : " It frequently happens that pieces of copper are found, weighing from ten...savages ; and, since they are very superstitious, they regard them as divinities, or as presents given to them to promote their happiness, by the gods who... | |
| Electa Maria Sheldon - 1856 - 432 σελίδες
...recent event, is evident from the following description of Allouez. He says : " It frequently happens that pieces of copper are found, weighing from ten...savages ; and, since they are very superstitious, they regard them as divinities, or as presents given to them to promote their happiness, by the gods who... | |
| Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences - 1876 - 396 σελίδες
...Whitney's report on the mineral region of Lake Superior. The Rev. Father says : " [t happens frequently that pieces of copper are found, weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have seen such pieces in the hands of the savages, and since they are very superstitious they esteem them as... | |
| Mansfield Tracy Walworth - 1877 - 480 σελίδες
...with four hundred Indians. He reached Lake Superior in September, and writes : "It happens frequently that pieces of copper are found, weighing from ten...pounds. I have seen several such pieces in the hands of savages, and since they are very superstitious they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given... | |
| Charles Conrad Abbott, Henry Carvill Lewis - 1881 - 580 σελίδες
...two hundred leagues FIG. 397. — New York. J[. long and eighty broad. * ' '" ' It happens frequently that pieces of copper are found weighing from ten...pounds. I have seen several such pieces in the hands of savages ; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given... | |
| Charles Conrad Abbott - 1881 - 586 σελίδες
...is two hundred leagues FIG. 397. -New York. \. long and eighty broad. * " " * It happens frequently that pieces of copper are found weighing from ten...pounds. I have seen several such pieces in the hands of savages ; and since they are very superstitious, they esteem them as divinities, or as presents given... | |
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