A Description of LouisianaJohn G. Shea, 1880 - 423 oldal |
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Akansa animals Anthony of Padua arms arrived ascended beaver buffalo cabin called Canada canoe canoemen chief Clercq Count de Frontenac Déc Découv descended Discovery fall Father Gabriel Father Hennepin Father Louis fear feasts fire Fort Frontenac four France French Frenchmen gave give hundred leagues hunt Indian corn Iroquois island Islinois Issati Jesuits killed la Salle Lake Conty Lake Dauphin Lake Erie Lake Frontenac Lake Orleans Lake Superior land Louis Hennepin Louisiana Margry's Relation meat Miamis Missilimakinac Mississippi mouth Nadouesioux nations Niagara Niagara river night Nouv Nouvelle Découverte obliged omitted in Margry Picard portage prairies present Quebec river Colbert river Meschasipi river Seignelay sail Salle Salle's letter savages says Seignelay side Sieur de la Sieur de Tonty Sioux Taensa told Tonty took trees vessel village voyage warriors wild wind wished wood
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391. oldal - ... vast country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico. With a description of the Great Lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals...
142. oldal - As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but reeds which rose five or six feet above the waters in which they bathed their roots.
220. oldal - behind us. After four or five leagues sail another chief came to us, made us disembark, and pulling up three little piles of grass, made us sit down ; he then took a piece of cedar full of little round holes in one of which he put a stick, which he spun round between his two palms, and in this way made fire to light the tobacco in his great calumet. After weeping some time, and putting his hands on my head, he gave me his peace-calumet to smoke, and showed us that we should be in his country in six...
198. oldal - Indians who had taken us, wishing to kill us, wept the whole night, to induce the others to consent to our death. This lake which is formed by the River Colbert, is seven leagues long, and about four wide ; there is no considerable current in the middle that we could perceive, but only at its entrance and exit.* Half a league below the lake of Tears, on the south side, is Buffalo river, full of turtles.
216. oldal - this wily savage had the bones of some distinguished relative, which he preserved with great care in some skins dressed and adorned with several rows of black and red porcupine quills. From time to time he assembled his men to give it a smoke, and made us come several days...
232. oldal - In fact, they were never better pleased with me, than when I was shaved ; and from a complaisance certainly not criminal, I shaved every week. All...
247. oldal - Never have we more admired God's providence than during this voyage, for we did not always find deer, and could not kill them when we would ; but the eagles, which are very common in these vast countries, sometimes dropped from their claws bream, or large carp, which they were carrying to their nests. Another time we found an otter on the bank of the river Colbert eating a large fish, which had, running from the head, a kind of paddle or beak?
375. oldal - On the 2d of July, 1679, I had the honor to plant his Majesty's arms in the great village of the Nadouecioux, called Izatys, where never had a Frenchman been...
392. oldal - With a continuation: giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c. The taking of Quebec by the English; with the advantages of a snorter cut to China and Japan.
196. oldal - ... of mountains, very small here, which wind with the river, and in some places are pretty far from the banks, so that between the mountains and the river, there are large prairies, where you often see herds of wild cattle browsing. In other places these eminences leave semi-circular spots covered with grass or wood. Beyond these mountains you discover vast plains, but the more we approach the northern side ascending, the earth did not appear to us so fertile, nor the woods so beautiful as in the...