| Bishop Davenport - North America - 1843 - 604 pages
...their fires at every step, runs hither and thither, until one of the chiefs, whether out of compassion, or weary of cruelty, puts an end to his life with a club or dagger. The body j.3 then put into a kettle, and this barbarous custom is succeeded by a feast as barbarous.... | |
| Bernard W. Sheehan - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 324 pages
...their fires at every step, runs hither and thither, until one of the chiefs, whether out of compassion, or weary of cruelty, puts an end to his life with a club or dagger. The body is then put into a kettle, and this barbarous employment is succeeded by a feast as... | |
| English essays - 1770 - 748 pages
...pelted upon every ide with clubs and (tones, now up, now down, falling into th? tr fires af every ftcp, runs hither and thither, until one of the chiefs,...with a club or a dagger. The body is then put into the kettle, and'this barbarous employment is Aiccceded by a feaft as barbarous. The women, forgetting... | |
| English essays - 1770 - 742 pages
...and Hones, now up, now down, falling into their fires at every ftep, runs hither aud thither, ur.til one of the chiefs, whether out of companion or weary...with a club or a dagger. The body is then put into the kettle, and this barbarous employment is fuccceded by a feail as barbarous. The women, forgetting... | |
| 1757 - 380 pages
...rtones, now up, now down, falling into their fires at every ftep, runs hither and thither, until fome of the Chiefs, whether out of companion, or weary...life with a club or a dagger. The body is then put ¡ato tie kettle, tnd this barbarous employ ment is fucceeded wonderful power .of an early inftitution,... | |
| History - 1791 - 508 pages
...their fires'at every flep, runs hither and thither, until one of the chiefs, whether out of compajßon, or weary of cruelty, puts an end to his life with a club or dagger. The body is then put inte' the kettle, and this barbarous employment is fucceeded by a feaß... | |
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