Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indiansauthor, 1859 - 290 Seiten |
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Apaches Arkansas River barbarous baskets beautiful berry brother burned camp captivity captors chief dark daughter dead dear death distance dreadful escape eye of innocence eyes face faint fear feelings feet felt Fort Yuma Francisco gathered gave gaze GILA RIVER girls gloom grief ground Gulf of California hands heart hills hope hundred miles hymn inclosure Indians jaded band kill kindred knew labor large number lazy Lecount live look Lorenzo LORENZO D Los Angeles Star Mexican mind Mohave Valley Mohaves morsel mountain musquite never night Oatman Olive Olive Oatman oth-to-toa pain parents party Pimole plainly saw pow-wow reached rescue rest river routed game savages scene season seemed side sister sleep soon spent spirits strength suddenly sufferings Taneta tarrying tears thought tion told tribe tried to sing trip valley village wagon watched whites whole wild Yuma Yuma Indian
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Seite 179 - How tedious and tasteless the hours, When Jesus no longer I see ! Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flowers. Have all lost their sweetness to me : The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay ; But when I am happy in him, December's as pleasant as May.
Seite 79 - When sorrow rends the heart, when feverish pain Wrings the hot drops of anguish from the brow; To soothe the soul, to cool the burning brain, O ! who so welcome, and so prompt as thou...
Seite 136 - Tusquin?' (clay kettle) and this meat-mush or soup was the staple of food among them, and of this they were frequently short, and obliged to quiet themselves with meted out allowance ; to their captives it was always thus meted out. At times game in the immediate vicinity was scarce, and their indolence would not let them go forth to the chase upon the mountains and in the valleys a little distance, where they acknowledged it plenty, only in cases of impending starvation. During the time of captivity...
Seite 56 - ... on the principle that two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
Seite 192 - The Mohaves believe that when their friends die ihey depart to a certain high hill in the western section of their territory. That they there pursue their avocation free from the ills and pains of their present life, if they had been good and brave. But they held that all cowardly Indians (and bravery was the good with them) were tormented with hardships and failures, sickness and defeats. This hill or hades, they never dared visit.
Seite 199 - ... army was being prepared which would annihilate the Mohaves and all tribes who assisted them in concealing the captives. Francisco was visibly impressed. Grinnell kept him in his tent all that night, and in the morning took him to Colonel Burke, who commanded the fort. Francisco said :" You give me four blankets and some beads, and I will bring her in just twenty days, when the sun is there," indicating about four o'clock in the afternoon.
Seite 157 - The chiefs house was on a beautiful but small elevation crowning the river bank, from which the eye could sweep a large section of the valley, and survey the entire village, a portion of which lined each bank of the stream. As a model, and one that will give a correct idea of the form observed, especially in their village structures, we may speak of the chiefs residence.
Seite 188 - They then drove large, rough wooden spikes through the palms of poor Nowereha's hands, and by these they lifted her to the cross and drove the spikes into the soft wood of the beam, extending her hands as far as they could. They then, with pieces of bark stuck with thorns, tied her head firmly back to the upright post, drove spikes through her ankles, and for a time left her in this condition. "They soon returned, and placing me with their Oochopa captives near the sufferer, bid us keep our eyes...
Seite 79 - My father suddenly sank down upon a stone near the wagon and exclaimed, 'Mother, Mother, in the name of God, I know that something dreadful is about to happen!
Seite 74 - ... be lurking in the wilds about them. They talked of the Indians, although they had seen none and no indications of any since they started. Each had his crude idea of the course he would pursue, and Olive, the second girl, a child of twelve years, said that she, at least, would not be taken by those miserable brutes. "I will fight as long as I can, and if I see that I am about to be taken I will kill myself,