 | William Rudolph Smith - 1854 - 444 strani
...bottom of the water, pieces of pure copper, weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have often .seen them in the hands of the savages, and as they are superstitious, they look upon them as so many divinities, or as presents made to them by the gods who are at the bottom... | |
 | William Rudolph Smith - 1854 - 458 strani
...bottom of the water, pieces of pure copper, weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have often seen them in the hands of the savages, and as they are superstitious, they look upon them as so many divinities, or as presents made to them by the gods who are at the bottom... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 592 strani
...Lake Superior was greatly reverenced by the Indians inhabiting its shores at the time of the early explorations of the Jesuit missionaries. Claude Allouez...enveloped among their most precious furniture. There arc some who have preserved them for more than fifty years, and others who have had them in their families... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - 766 strani
...Lake Superior was greatly reverenced by the Indians inhabiting its shores at the time of the early explorations of the Jesuit missionaries. Claude Allouez...presents from the gods beneath the water, who have fiven them as pledges of good fortune. On that account, they eep the pieces of copper enveloped among... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 590 strani
...find in the lake pieces of copper weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have seen many such pieces in the hands of the savages; and as they are superstitious, they regard them as divinities, or as gifts which the gods who dwell beneath its waters have bestowed on... | |
 | sir Daniel Wilson - 1862 - 520 strani
...find in the lake pieces of copper weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have seen many such pieces in the hands of the savages ; and as they are superstitious, they regard them as divinities, or as gifts which the gods who dwell beneath its waters have bestowed on... | |
 | John C. Van Tramp - 1868 - 822 strani
...There are often found beneath the water pieces of copper, all formed, and of the •weight of 10 and 20 pounds. I have seen them many times in the hands of...savages, and, as they are superstitious, they keep them aa so many divinities, or as presents from the gods beneath the water, who have given them as pledges... | |
 | Alfred P. Swineford - 1876 - 348 strani
...to it, on account perhaps, of its magnitude, for it is two hundred leagues long and eighty leagues wide; or on account of its goodness in furnishing...as so many divinities, or as presents from the gods heneath the water, who have given them as pledges of good fortune. On that account they keep the pieces... | |
 | Rushton M. Dorman - 1881 - 418 strani
...bottom of Lake Superior pieces of pure copper weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have often seen them in the hands of the savages, and, as they are superstitious, they look upon them as so many divinities. For this reason they preserve these pieces of copper wrapped... | |
 | William Whipple Warren - 1885 - 552 strani
...obtained at the treaty of Prairie du Chien weighing from ten to twenty pounds. I have often seen them in the hands of the savages, and as they are superstitious they look upon them as so many divinities, or as presents made to them by the gods who are at the bottom... | |
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Savages' hands; and since they are superstitious, they keep them as so many divinities, or as presents which the gods dwelling beneath the water have given them, and on which their welfare is to depend. 
