 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1851 - 536 pages
...close under their lee. We therefore approached the lands of the Ottawas, and their village of L'Arbre Croche, already mentioned as lying about twenty miles...is built. Every half hour, the Indians gave their warwhoop, one for every prisoner in their canoe. This is a general custom, by the aid of which, all... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1851 - 528 pages
...of the tongue of land on which the Fort is built Every half hour, the Indians gave their warwhoop, one for every prisoner in their canoe. This is a general...aid of which, all other Indians, within hearing, are apprised of the number of prisoners they are carrying. In this manner we reached Wagoshense, Fox-point,... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1853 - 534 pages
...close under their lee. We therefore approached the lands of the Ottawas, and their village of L'Arbre Croche, already mentioned as lying about twenty miles to the westward of MichiUmackinac, on the opposite side of the tongue of land on which the Fort is built Every half hour,... | |
 | James Alvin Van Fleet - Mackinac - 1870 - 190 pages
...close under their lee. We therefore approached the lands of the Ottawas, and their village of L'Arbre Croche, already mentioned as lying about twenty miles...This is a general custom, by the aid of which all the Indians within hearing are apprized of the number of prisoners they are carrying. In this manner... | |
 | James Alvin Van Fleet - History - 1880 - 202 pages
...close under their lee. We therefore approached the lands of the Ottawas, and their village of L'Arbre Croche, already mentioned as lying about twenty miles...tongue of land on which the fort is built. " Every half-hour the Indians gave their war-whoops, one for every prisoner in their canoe. This is a general... | |
 | Antrim County (Mich.) - 1884 - 484 pages
...close under their lee. We therefore approached the lands of the Ottawas, and their village of L'Arbre Croche, already mentioned as lying about twenty miles...tongue of land on which the fort is built. "Every half-hour the Indians gave their war whoops, one for every prisoner in their canoe. This is a general... | |
 | John Read Bailey - Mackinac Island (Mich.) - 1895 - 244 pages
...close under their lee. We therefore approached the lands of the Ottawas, and their village of L'Arbre Croche, already mentioned as lying about twenty miles...of the tongue of land on which the fort is built. 8 " Every half-hour the Indians gave their war-whoops, one for every prisoner in their canoe. This... | |
 | John Read Bailey - Mackinac Island (Mich.) - 1896 - 256 pages
...close under their lee. "We therefore approached the lands of the Ottawas, and their village of L'Arbre Croche, already mentioned as lying about twenty miles...tongue of land on which the fort is built. " Every half-hour the Indians gave their war-whoops, one for every prisoner in their canoe. This is a general... | |
 | 1921 - 386 pages
...close under their lee. We therefore approached the lands of the Ottawa and their village of L'Arbre Croche already mentioned as lying about twenty miles...fort is built. Every half hour the Indians gave their war whoops, one for every prisoner in their canoe. This is a general custom, by the aid of which all... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Adventure and adventurers - 1905 - 426 pages
...laud on which the fort is built. Every half-hour the Indians gave their war-whoop four times, once for every prisoner in their canoe. This is a general...aid of which all other Indians within hearing are apprised of the number of prisoners they are carrying. In this manner we reached Fox Point, a long... | |
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... for the Isles du Castor, which lie in the mouth of Lake Michigan; and we should have crossed the lake but that a thick fog came on, on account of which the Indians deemed it safer to keep the shore close under their lee. We therefore approached the... 
