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MANNERS CUST SEV IND (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities)
MANNERS CUST SEV IND - The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities Author:Washburn Subtitle: Including Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions, and the Indian Materia Medica: to Which Is Prefixed the History of the Author's Life During a Residence of Several Years Among Them General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1823 Original Publisher: Printed and pub. for the author, by J. Ma... more »xwell Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America Captivities Indians of North America Social life and customs Indian captivities indians of North America History / Native American Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: As I entertained very great respect for that gentleman, his opinions were treasured up by me as oracular, and I have since often reflected on them with a mixture of pleasureable sensations and painful solicitude that defies my powers of description. But besides my desire to acquire a professional knowledge, my ardent imagination depicted to me all the beauties that had been unveiled in the intellectual world. From the ready proficiency I had made I thought of nothing less than the subjugation of the empires of science and literature, and when this had been accomplished, to have penetrated into unexplored regions in search of new truths. With my miad thus filled with lofty expectations; ignorant of the world, of my own powers, and the vanity of the attempts I contemplated; unknown to a single human being, with whom I could claim kindred, except from common origin; and even indebted to circumstance for a name; in the fall of 1821, 1 crossed the Alleghany mountains, and as it were, commenced a new existence. By this, however, I intend no local reflection, for wherever I visited...« less