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I had often before this said that , if the Indians should come , I should choose rather to be killed by them than taken alive , but , when it came to the trial , my mind changed ; their glittering weapons SO daunted my spirit that I ...
I had often before this said that , if the Indians should come , I should choose rather to be killed by them than taken alive , but , when it came to the trial , my mind changed ; their glittering weapons SO daunted my spirit that I ...
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... they killed some , and took others , whom they also killed ; and , among the rest , a young maid of about fourteen years old was taken , and the scalp of her head taken off , and her skull broken , and left for dead with others .
... they killed some , and took others , whom they also killed ; and , among the rest , a young maid of about fourteen years old was taken , and the scalp of her head taken off , and her skull broken , and left for dead with others .
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The second selection , taken from the same source , is Bacon's speech to his followers before leading them against Berkeley's anti - insurrection forces . The third selection , also from the commissioners ' True Narrative , is the oath ...
The second selection , taken from the same source , is Bacon's speech to his followers before leading them against Berkeley's anti - insurrection forces . The third selection , also from the commissioners ' True Narrative , is the oath ...
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JACQUES CARTIER | 30 |
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| Title | American Literature: From the beginning to 1860.-v. 2. From 1860 to the present Volume 1 of American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, John Towner Frederick |
| Editors | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 1 Sep 2006 |
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