Stories from Indian wigwams and northern camp-fires / by Egerton Ryerson Young.

  • Egerton Ryerson Young
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Stories from Indian wigwams and northern camp-fires / by Egerton Ryerson Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XYII. Indian oratory—The gift highly prized and cultivated—Admired by emi- nent writers—Charlevoix’s opinion—Dr. Punshon’s testimony to Salas- salton—Specimens gathered from various sources—Logan’s speech— Tecumseh’s character and addresses—His haughty reply to General Harrison—Orations at peace councils—Highest style of oratory among them—Pathetic words of Push-ma-ta-ha—Simmo’s beautiful address— A chiefs speech at the ceremony of the burial of the tomahawk— Weatherford’s eloquent and bravo address to General Jackson—The annihilation of such a people to be regretted Page 205 CHAPTER XVIII. The medicine-men, or conjurers—Description—Among all the tribes—Power they exercise—Knowledge of some medicines—Rely principally on their imaginary supernatural power to retain their influence—Shrewd ob- servers of nature—Rain-makers—Charms—Good medicine—General Custer—Test of skill between rival medicine-men—Jesuit priest— Mountain sheep killed by the conjurer’s word—Wild goose killed by magic—Conjurers blackmailers—Power of superstitions—Frightened to death—Successful conjurer at Norway House—Failure of a boast- ful medicine-man—Not invulnerable against fire or bullets—The red- hot poker too much for him—Some of them converted—“Call mo Daniel 219 CHAPTER XIX. The Hudson Bay Company—Enormous extent of its operations—Vastness of the country—From ocean to ocean—World long kept in ignorance of the possibilities of the Canadian North-west—Marvelous changes— Canadian Pacific Railroad—Coming greatness of Canada—Bryant—Hud- son Bay traders—Trading-posts—Methods of barter—Story of the In- dian and his lost money—Beaver-skin standard—Mails but once or twice a year—A daily paper—John and his master—The pea-soup— Securing the company’s good-will—Visits to the lonely posts—Grateful whites as well as Indians—“All things to all men that we might win some” 230 CHAPTER XX. The fur-bearing animals of the Hudson Bay territory—Clever fur-hunters— Fox easily shot—Industrious beavers—Their dams—Houses built—The old sentinel—Young beavers at work also—Fur-hunting dangerous work—Poor remuneration to the Indian. 242
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