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On the contrary, before him, in her peerless beauty, stood Genevra Tompkins, leaning on her father's arm. "Ye'r not scalped, then!" gasped her lover. "No. I have no hesitation in saying that I am not; but why this abruptness?" responded Genevra. Bumpo could not speak, but frantically produced the silken tresses. Genevra turned her face aside. "Why, that's her waterfall!" said the Judge.
In order to be popular, Robert de Nobili, it is said, traced his lineage to Brahma; and one of their missionaries among the Indians told the savages that Christ was a warrior who scalped women and children. Anything for an outward success. Under their teachings it was seen what a light affair it was to bear the yoke of Christ.
The man turned and said to him, "Mr. Bridger, I hope all the people of this train will listen to your advice from this night until we reach the end of our journey. If we four men had done as you told us to do, we would not have suffered what we have today, and the nineteen, who I have no doubt have been scalped by the savages, would have been alive and well tonight.
Enlisting in the First Arkansas Regiment as a private soldier, and serving for twelve months as orderly sergeant; at the reorganization he was elected colonel of the regiment, and afterwards, on account of merit and ability, was commissioned brigadier-general; distinguishing himself for conspicuous bravery and gallantry on every battlefield, and being "scalped" by a minnie ball at Richmond, Kentucky which scar marks its furrow on top of his head today.
"He is with his God Tharon or Christ, whichever it may be, Loskiel." "The Mole must not be scalped," said Tahoontowhee softly. "If the Senecas pass that way they will have at last one thing to boast of." I said to the Mohican: "Hold the Erie. The Night-Hawk and I will go back and bury our dead against Seneca profanation." "Let the Grey-Feather go, Loskiel." "No. The Mole was Christian.
In 1636 the Pequots, who dwelt along the Thames River in Connecticut, made war on the settlers in the Connecticut River valley towns. Men were waylaid and scalped, or taken prisoners and burned at the stake. Determined to put an end to this, ninety men from the Connecticut towns, with twenty from Massachusetts and some Mohegan Indians, in 1637 marched against the marauders.
The quartermaster-general, Sir John Sinclair, "stormed like a lion rampant," but with small effect. Contracts broken or disavowed, want of horses, want of wagons, want of forage, want of wholesome food, or sufficient food of any kind, caused such delay that the report of it reached England, and drew from Walpole the comment that Braddock was in no hurry to be scalped.
"And we must make a rescue." "That's true, an' we've got to be so mighty keerful about it that we ain't took an' scalped and burned by the savages, afore we've had a single chance at makin' a rescue." The thought in the minds of the two was the same.
Each man was stripped naked and hacked and scalped, the skulls beaten in with war clubs and the bodies gashed with knives almost beyond recognition, with other ghastly mutilations that the civilized pen hesitates to record." This tragedy brought the Indian problem before the country as never before.
He sez, 'Somebody that won't be missed somebody not genteel enough to play loo with him after supper, sez X. 'Or too religious, sez I. 'Or can't sing a good song or tell a rousing tale, sez X. 'Or listen an' laugh in the right places at the gentleman's old cracks about the great world, sez I. 'He'll never let Ralph Emsden go, sez X. 'Jus' some poor body will do, sez I. 'Jus' man enough to be scalped by the Injuns if the red sticks take after him, sez X. 'Or have his throat cut if the cow-drivers feel rough yet, sez I. 'Jus' such a one ez me, sez X. 'Or me, sez I."
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