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Process Of Scalping Among The North American Indians.
F- „ lontion ; and whilst the person is under this preparatory trial the tn ° are rejoicing that the Master of Life * has communicated tot hem rt , P knowledge of disposing of the aged and infirm , and sending them „ , better country , where they will be renovated , and hunt again ? ifh all the vigour of youth . They then smoke the pipe of peace , ; ii , d have their dog-feast : they also sing the grand medicine song , as
f ° « ° Th e Master of Life gives courage . It is true all' Indians know that he loves us , and we now give our father to him , that he may find himself young in another country , and be able to hunt . . _ The song ' s and dances are renewed , and the eldest son gives ins f-. ther the death stroke with a tomahawk : they then take the body , which they paint in the best manner , and bury it with the war weapons , making a bark hut to . cover the grave , to prevent the wild animals from disturbing it .
Singularities Of Mr. Howard, The Philanthropist.
SINGULARITIES OF MR . HOWARD , THE PHILANTHROPIST .
FROM ; MR . PRATT ' S GLEANINGS .
T \ KR HOWARD was singular in many of the common habits of life ; M for instance , he preferred damp sheets linen , and clothes to dry oiies and both rising and going to bed , swathed himself with co-irse oweis dipped indie coldest water he could get ; in that state S remainedhalfan hour , and then threw them off , freshened and nv o-orated , as he said , beyond measure . . He' never put on a great countries had been minute under or over
coat ° in the coldest , nor a the time of an appointment , so far as . it depended on himself for six and-twenty years . He never continued at . a place , or with a person , a single day . beyond the period prefixed for going , m hrs whole life ; and he had not , for the last sixteen years of his existence , flesh fowlnor sat down to Ins simple fare ot tea ,
ate any fish , , or , milk , and rusks , all that time . His journeys were continued from prison to prison , from one groupc of wretched beings to another , nio-ht and day . and where he could not go with a carnage , he would ride ; and where that was hazardous , he would walk . Such a thing as an obstruction was out of the question . „ ,: * :-, ?„ after his firstreturn froman attemp t to mitigate
Some davs , . , the fury of " the plague in' Constantinople , lie-favoured me with . a morning visit in London ; the weather was so very terrible , that I had foigot his inveterate exactness , and had yielded up even the hope , for his own sake , of expecting him . Twelve at noon was the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Process Of Scalping Among The North American Indians.
F- „ lontion ; and whilst the person is under this preparatory trial the tn ° are rejoicing that the Master of Life * has communicated tot hem rt , P knowledge of disposing of the aged and infirm , and sending them „ , better country , where they will be renovated , and hunt again ? ifh all the vigour of youth . They then smoke the pipe of peace , ; ii , d have their dog-feast : they also sing the grand medicine song , as
f ° « ° Th e Master of Life gives courage . It is true all' Indians know that he loves us , and we now give our father to him , that he may find himself young in another country , and be able to hunt . . _ The song ' s and dances are renewed , and the eldest son gives ins f-. ther the death stroke with a tomahawk : they then take the body , which they paint in the best manner , and bury it with the war weapons , making a bark hut to . cover the grave , to prevent the wild animals from disturbing it .
Singularities Of Mr. Howard, The Philanthropist.
SINGULARITIES OF MR . HOWARD , THE PHILANTHROPIST .
FROM ; MR . PRATT ' S GLEANINGS .
T \ KR HOWARD was singular in many of the common habits of life ; M for instance , he preferred damp sheets linen , and clothes to dry oiies and both rising and going to bed , swathed himself with co-irse oweis dipped indie coldest water he could get ; in that state S remainedhalfan hour , and then threw them off , freshened and nv o-orated , as he said , beyond measure . . He' never put on a great countries had been minute under or over
coat ° in the coldest , nor a the time of an appointment , so far as . it depended on himself for six and-twenty years . He never continued at . a place , or with a person , a single day . beyond the period prefixed for going , m hrs whole life ; and he had not , for the last sixteen years of his existence , flesh fowlnor sat down to Ins simple fare ot tea ,
ate any fish , , or , milk , and rusks , all that time . His journeys were continued from prison to prison , from one groupc of wretched beings to another , nio-ht and day . and where he could not go with a carnage , he would ride ; and where that was hazardous , he would walk . Such a thing as an obstruction was out of the question . „ ,: * :-, ?„ after his firstreturn froman attemp t to mitigate
Some davs , . , the fury of " the plague in' Constantinople , lie-favoured me with . a morning visit in London ; the weather was so very terrible , that I had foigot his inveterate exactness , and had yielded up even the hope , for his own sake , of expecting him . Twelve at noon was the