Columbia procure these slaves from the neighboring tribes, and from the interior, in exchange for beads and furs. They treat them with humanity- while their services are useful, but as soon as they become incapable of labor, neglect them and suffer them... The Washington Historical Quarterly - Seite 2801918Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Gabriel Franchère - 1854 - 408 Seiten
...destined to bear the chains of their sires. The natives of the Columbia procure these 'slaves from the neighboring tribes, and from the interior, in exchange...old decayed tree, or drag them to the woods to be devoured-by the wolves and vultures. The Indians of the Columbia are of a light copper color, active... | |
| Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 426 Seiten
...destined to bear the chains of their sires. The natives of the Columbia procure these slaves from the neighboring tribes, and from the interior, in exchange...the woods to be devoured by the wolves and vultures. The Indians of the Columbia are of a light copper color, active in body, and, above all, excellent... | |
| Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 422 Seiten
...The natives of the Columbia procure these slaves from the neighboring tribes, and from the ulterior, in exchange for beads and furs. They treat them with...suffer them to perish of want. When dead, they throw then- bodies, without ceremony, under the stump of an old decayed tree, or drag them to the woods to... | |
| Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 438 Seiten
...destined to bear the chains of their sires. The natives of the Columbia procure these slaves from the neighboring tribes, and from the interior, in exchange...beads and furs. They treat them with humanity while then: services are useful, but as soon as they become incapable of labor, neglect them and suffer them... | |
| 1918 - 680 Seiten
...blankets; of a child, about fifty blankets, about $150. Hazard Stevens, in his Life of Itaac I. Stevent, Vol. I, page 451, says: "The Indians on the Sound,...woods to be devoured by the wolves and vultures." In Clark's Journal of the Lewis and Clark's Expedition, he writes: "The boy which this Indian offered... | |
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