They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long-lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves without medicine, by the heat of the fire, and their death at last comes from extreme old age. We judge them to be very affectionate and charitable towards... The New England Magazine - Page 6061898Full view - About this book
| New-York Historical Society - New York (State) - 1841 - 518 pages
...moon, the sprouting of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long-lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves...good fortune. At their departure out of life, their relations mutually join in weeping, mingled with singing, for a long while. This is all that we could... | |
| Conway Robinson, Virginia Historical Society - America - 1848 - 590 pages
...fire, and their death at last comes from extreme old age. We judge them to be very affec40 tionate and charitable towards their relatives — making...good fortune. At their departure out of life, their relations mutually join in weeping, mingled with singing, for a long while. This is all that we could... | |
| Henry Cruse Murphy - America - 1875 - 230 pages
...the sprouting of grain, and'iaany other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long-lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves...good fortune. At their departure out of life, their relations mutually join in weeping, mingled with singing, for a long while. This is all that we could... | |
| Henry Cruse Murphy - North America - 1875 - 230 pages
...moon, the sprouting of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long-lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves...last comes from extreme old age. We judge them to bo very affectionate and charitable towards their relatives — making loud lamentations in their adversity,... | |
| Barnard Shipp - Biography & Autobiography - 1881 - 720 pages
...of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long lived. If they fall sick they cure themselves without medicine, by the heat of fire, and their death at last comes from extreme old age. We judge them to- be very affectionate and... | |
| Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...moon, the sprouting of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long-lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves...good fortune. At their departure out of life, their relations mutually join in weeping, mingled with singing, for a long while. This is all that we could... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - North America - 1903 - 658 pages
...moon, the sprouting of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long-lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves...good fortune. At their departure out of life, their relations mutually join in weeping, mingled with singing, for a long while. This is all that we could... | |
| Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - America - 1903 - 698 pages
...moon, the sprouting of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long-lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves...good fortune. At their departure out of life, their relations mutually join in weeping, mingled with singing, for a long while. This is all that we could... | |
| Alfred Brittain, George Edward Reed - History - 1903 - 638 pages
...moon, the sprouting of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are long-lived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves...good fortune. At their departure out of life, their relations mutually join in weeping, mingled with singing, for a long while. This is all that we could... | |
| George Parker Winship - America - 1905 - 328 pages
...moon, the sprouting of grain, and many other ancient usages. They live by hunting and fishing, and they are longlived. If they fall sick, they cure themselves...good fortune. At their departure out of life, their relations mutually join in weeping, mingled with singing, for a long while. This is all that we could... | |
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