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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
ng in the woods for four years, was found not Adair, 410. far north of the head waters of the Mobi more than twelve hundred and fifty warriors; Adair. Ramsay the oldest enumeration was made in 174nsels of their old beloved men? Who can tell Adair, 31, 33 how often the waves of barbarous migraities of heat and cold, to hunger and thirst. Adair, 180, 181. And blood being once shed, the reci. He turns from himself to the animal world, Adair, 19, 22, 25. which he believes also to be anime body by continued penance. The security of Adair, 382 female captives was, in part, the consequedicine man boasts of his power over the ele- Adair, 85. merits; he can call water from above, andformerly, they must have changed greatly. And Adair confidently insinuates, that the Koran does not more widely differ Adair 2<*> from the Gospels, than the romances respecting the Natchez from th cabins of North America, now in the secluded Adair valleys of the Tennessee, and again, as the au
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
e of nobles was so distinct, that usage had moulded language into forms of reverence. In other respects, there was among the Natchez no greater culture than among the Choctas; and their manners hardly differed from those of northern tribes, except as they were modified by climate. The French, who were cantoned among the Natchez, coveted their soil; the commander, Chopart, swayed by a brutal avarice, demanded as a plantation the very site of their principal village. They listened to the Adair, 353. counsels of the Chickasas; they prevailed in part with the Choctas; and a general massacre of the intruders was concerted. The arrival of boats from New Orleans with merchandise hastened the rising of the Natchez. On the morning of the twenty-eighth of 1729. Nov. 28. November, 1729, the work of blood began, and before noon nearly every Frenchman in the colony was murdered. The Great Sun, taking his seat under the storehouse of the company, smoked the calumet in complacency, while