 They and we began to shout, each seizing his arms. We withdrew towards the water and the Iroquois repaired on shore, and arranged all their canoes, the one beside the other, and began to hew down trees with villainous axes, which they sometimes got in...  Bulletin of the New York State Museum - Page 171902Full view - About this book
 | Winslow Cossoul Watson - Champlain, Lake - 1869 - 516 pages
...arms. We withdrew to the water, and the Iroquois repaired on shore, arranged their canoes together and began to hew down trees with villainous axes,...of stone, and fortified themselves very securely. Our party, likewise, kept their canoes one alongside of the other, tied to poles, so as not to run... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - America - 1877 - 408 pages
...the west side. They and we began to shout, each seizing his arms. We withdrew towards the water ; and the Iroquois repaired on shore, and arranged all their...beside the other, and began to hew down trees with villanous axes which they sometimes got in war, and other of stone, and fortified themselves very securely.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Explorers - 1877 - 446 pages
...the west side. They and we began to shout, each seizing his arms. We withdrew towards the water ; and the Iroquois repaired on shore, and arranged all their...beside the other, and began to hew down trees with villanous axes which they sometimes got in war, and other of stone, and fortified themselves very securely.... | |
 | Samuel de Champlain - America Discovery and exploration - 1887 - 58 pages
...the West side. They and we began to shout, each seizing his arms. We withdrew towards the water and the Iroquois repaired on shore, and arranged all their...of stone, and fortified themselves very securely. Our party, likewise, kept their canoes arranged the one alongside the other, tied to poles so as not... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1891 - 462 pages
...loss." Their enemies did as well. When the Iroquois met them at night, and had gone at ashore, "they began to hew down trees with villainous axes, which...of stone, and fortified themselves very securely." Another feature of early forts is often forgotten, if, indeed, generally known. This was the leaving... | |
 | William Martin Beauchamp - Indians of North America - 1897 - 190 pages
...effective than most antiquarians have thought, for in this instance fire was not used. He said they 'began to hew down trees with villainous axes, which...of stone, and fortified themselves very securely.' Usually, according to David Cusick, fire was applied to trees, and when these were felled, fresh fires... | |
 | 1897 - 804 pages
...effective than most antiquarians have thought, for in this instance fire was not used. He said they ' began to hew down trees with villainous axes, which...of stone, and fortified themselves very securely.' Usually, according to David Cusick, fire was applied to trees, and when these were felled, fresh fires... | |
 | William Max Reid - Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) - 1901 - 490 pages
...the west side. They and we began to shout, each seizing his arms. We withdrew towards the water and the Iroquois repaired on shore and arranged all their...war, and others of stone, and fortified themselves securely. Our party, likewise, kept their canoes arranged, the one alongside the other, tied to poles... | |
 | William Martin Beauchamp - Indian metal-work - 1902 - 192 pages
...some sea that falleth into the South Sea." In his well known account of his battle on Lake Champlain in 1609, the great French explorer observed that the...and others of stone, and fortified themselves very secure!}'." We are thus not to limit the possible use of European metallic articles in New York to... | |
 | Seneca Ray Stoddard - Champlain, Lake - 1904 - 250 pages
...the west side. They and we began to shout, each seizing his arms. We withdrew toward the water, and the Iroquois repaired on shore and arranged all their...of stone, and fortified themselves very securely. "Our party, likewise, kept their canoes arranged the one alongside the other, tied to poles so as not... | |
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