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John Johnson, Esq. the Indian agent, at Fort Wayne, under date of August 7th, 1810, says, to the secretary at war, "About one hundred Saukees have returned from the British agent, who supplied them liberally with every thing they stood in need of. The party received forty-seven rifles, and a number of fusils with plenty of powder and lead."
They shouldered their fusils, sprang gaily up the rocks, and the little doctor hobbled back to Terracina, rejoicing that the robbers had let his seal ring, his watch, and his treatise escape unmolested, though rather nettled that they should have pronounced his veritable intaglio a counterfeit. The improvvisatore had shown many symptoms of impatience during this recital.
This gave us leisure to charge our pieces again, and that we might lose no time, we kept doing; but we had but little more than loaded our fusils, and put ourselves into a readiness, when we heard a terrible noise in the same wood on our left; only that it was farther onward the same way we were to go.
These stand him too high in his own market, as they reach it only after long carriage and scandalous imposts. Fire-arms he has nothing to do with: such prairie Indians as use these are furnished from the eastern side; but many Spanish pieces fusils and escopettes have got into the hands of the Comanches through their forays upon the Mexican towns of the south.
A bend, a border charged with mitres; over all a label Archbishop Scrope. 11. Three water bougets Roos. 12. A saltire Neville. 13. On a cross five lions passant guardant City of York. 14. Three fusils in fess Montague. 15. A fess between six cross crosslets Beauchamp. 16. A lion rampant Percy. 17.
He always called the flat-bottomed boats, "Ces coquilles de noix;" and after an excellent dinner which he gave at Paris to many of his fellow Generals, in mockery of the "Epées d'honneur, fusils d'honneur," &c, which Bonaparte at this time distributed; Moreau sent for his cook, and with much ceremony invested him with a "casserole d'honneur."
The Burgesses hearing the noise below, crowded to the windows. But they drew back when the soldiers pointed their fusils at them, calling out: "We will have it. We will have it." One of the Burgesses called back: "For God's sake hold your hands; forbear a little and you shall have what you please."
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