 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 to them to promote their happiness by the gods who dwell beneath the water. For this reason they preserve...  Pre-historic Races of the United States of America - Seite 262von John Wells Foster - 1874 - 415 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Wells Foster, Josiah Dwight Whitney - 1850 - 258 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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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