From then on, night and day, Buck never left his prey, never gave it a moment's rest, never permitted it to browse the leaves of trees or the shoots of young birch and willow. Nor did he give the wounded bull opportunity to slake his burning thirst in the slender trickling streams they crossed. Often, in desperation, he burst into long stretches of flight. At such times Buck did not attempt to stay him, but loped easily at his heels, satisfied with the way the game was played, lying down when the moose stood still, attacking him fiercely when he strove to eat or drink.

Buck was wildly glad. He knew he was at last answering the call

He chuckled at his foolishness

t experienced a vague but menacing apprehension that subdued it and made it slink along at the man's heels, and that made it question eagerly every unwonted movement of the man as if expecting him to go into camp or to seek shelter somewhere and build a fire.

Chilcoot Divide

The scene often came back to Buck to trouble him in his sleep.

Dyea beach

conciliate

tide-water dog

These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

We talked salary; never anything but salary and love; sometimes love, sometimes salary, sometimes love and salary together.

credit

Jack Halliday, who was the loafing, good-natured, no-account, irreverent fisherman, hunter, boys’ friend, stray-dogs’ friend, typical “Sam Lawson” of the town.

“Why, we’re rich, Mary, rich; all we’ve got to do is to bury the money and burn the papers.  If the gambler ever comes to inquire, we’ll merely look coldly upon him and say: ‘What is this nonsense you are talking?  We have never heard of you and your sack of gold before;’ and then he would look foolish, and—”

But it is gamblers’ money! the wages of sin; we couldn’t take it; we couldn’t touch it.  I don’t like to be near it; it seems a defilement.” 

This is an honest town, an incorruptible town, and I know I can trust it without fear.

nationalism

ecclesiastical

“How strange,” said a lady, “that a simple black veil, such as any woman might wear on her bonnet, should become such a terrible thing on Mr. Hooper’s face!

Mr. Hooper had the reputation of a good preacher, but not an energetic one: he strove to win his people heavenward by mild, persuasive influences, rather than to drive them thither by the thunders of the Word.

Goaded, by the interference, into a rage more than demoniacal, I withdrew my arm from her grasp and buried the axe in her brain. She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan.

For my own part, I soon found a dislike to it arising within me. This was just the reverse of what I had anticipated

In the meantime the cat slowly recovered.

My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame. I took from my waistcoat-pocket a pen-knife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket! I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.

he was bent on the complete ruin of the unhappy girl, and supposed, by reducing her to an entire dependance on him, to bring her by degrees to consent to gratify his ungenerous passion.

had it not been for her, I might have been happy—” He paused. “With Julia Franklin,

He enquired of the servant where her mistress was, and being told she was asleep, took up a book to amuse himself: having sat a few minutes, he by chance cast his eyes towards the road, and saw Montraville approaching; he instantly conceived the diabolical scheme of ruining the unhappy Charlotte in his opinion for ever; he therefore stole softly up stairs, and laying himself by her side with the greatest precaution, for fear she should awake, was in that situation discovered by his credulous friend.

I feel I shall love and revere Julia Franklin as long as I live; yet to leave poor Charlotte in her present situation would be cruel beyond description.”

Would I!” said Charlotte, clasping her hands; “would not the poor sailor, tost on a tempestuous ocean, threatened every moment with death, gladly return to the shore he had left to trust to its deceitful calmness? Oh, my dear Madam, I would return, though to do it I were obliged to walk barefoot over a burning desert, and beg a scanty pittance of each traveller to support my existence. I would endure it all cheerfully

derision

Mrs. Beauchamp was mild and engaging; she loved not the hurry and bustle of a city, and had prevailed on her husband to take a house a few miles from New-York. Chance led her into the same neighbourhood with Charlotte; their houses stood within a short space of each other, and their gardens joined: she had not been long in her new habitation before the figure of Charlotte struck her; she recollected her interesting features; she saw the melancholy so conspicuous in her countenance, and her heart bled at the reflection, that perhaps deprived of honour, friends, all that was valuable in life, she was doomed to linger out a wretched existence in a strange land, and sink broken-hearted into an untimely grave

she was a girl of a lively disposition, and humane, susceptible heart: she resided in New-York with an uncle, who loved her too well, and had too high an opinion of her prudence, to scrutinize her actions so much as would have been necessary with many young ladies, who were not blest with her discretion: she was, at the time Montraville arrived at New-York, the life of society, and the universal toast.

business and pleasure so entirely occupied his time, that he had little to devote to the woman, whom he had brought from all her connections, and robbed of innocence

education hath set him so far above her, that in those entertainments which are productive of such rational felicity, she is not qualified to accompany him. She experiences a mortifying consciousness of inferiority

Observe the variety of fashions (here I bar the contemptuous smile) which distinguish and adorn the female world: how continually are they changing, insomuch that they almost render the wise man’s assertion problematical, and we are ready to say, there is something new under the sun. Now what a playfulness, what an exuberance of fancy, what strength of inventine imagination,

it is more than probable, that she will soon fall a sacrifice to some worthless character,

helpless old women have their clothes torn off their backs, even to the exposing of their nakedness; and by whom are these disgraceful and abusive actions committed, not by the men born and bred in Boston, for they are better bred; but by a mob or horde of shameless, low-lived, envious, spiteful persons, some of them not long since servants in gentlemen’s kitchens, scouring knives, tending horses, and driving chaise.

Grand Master, Solomon, was not asham’d to take the Queen of Sheba

we saw the whole Number of Indians, advancing forward and loading their Guns, upon which the Mate said, “my Lads we are all dead Men,”

Each cultivator and each worker is a member of the family and shares in parts of the revenues.

All men, regardless of color, are eligible to all employment.

them a solid education

They seem to require less sleep.

that immoveable veil of black which covers all the emotions of the other race

hat they should continue with their parents to a certain age, then be brought up, at the public expence, to tillage, arts or sciences, according to their geniusses,

It is to be lamented then, very much to be lamented, that we have suffered so many of the Indian tribes already to extinguish, without our having previously collected and deposited in the records of literature, the general rudiments at least of the languages they spoke.

An inhuman practice once prevailed in this country of making slaves of the Indians…

Were we in equal barbarism, our females would be equal drudges.

he will defend himself against an host of enemies, always chusing to be killed, rather than to (* 9) surrender,

we claim brotherhood with every European Christian

America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power had any thing to do with her.

And the[Pg 87] world would spew you out, were it not for the sovereign hand of him who hath subjected it in hope.

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell;

wicked Israelites

Holiness, as I then wrote down some of my contemplations on it, appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

it never seemed to be proper to express that c concern by the name of terror.

I seemed to be in my element when engaged in religious duties.

Every Day; in the Morning, at Noon, and in the Evening; nor would they ordinarily let their Children Eat or Sleep, without first saying their Prayers.

saw the shape of Martha Carrier,

much Demonstration of Truth

several of her own Children had frankly and fully confessed, not only that they were Witches themselves, but that this their Mother had made them so

by Biting, Pricking, Pinching and Choaking of them.

taking off the false Reports, and hard Censures about my Opinion in these Matters

this extraordinary Time of the Devils coming down in great Wrath upon us,

I have been in the midst of those roaring lions, and savage bears, that feared neither God, nor man, nor the devil

They would eat horse’s guts, and ears, and all sorts of wild birds which they could catch; also bear, venison, beaver, tortoise, frogs, squirrels, dogs, skunks, rattlesnakes; yea, the very bark of trees; besides all sorts of creatures, and provision which they plundered from the English.

Then also I took my Bible to read, but I found no comfort here neither, which many times I was wont to find

I had not seen my son a pretty while, and here was an Indian of whom I made inquiry after him, and asked him when he saw him. He answered me that such a time his master roasted him, and that himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and that he was very good meat. But the Lord upheld my Spirit, under this discouragement; and I considered their horrible addictedness to lying, and that there is not one of them that makes the least conscience of speaking of truth.

Then one of the company drew his sword, and told me he would run me through if I did not go presently. Then was I fain to stoop to this rude fellow,

I found six acorns, and two chestnuts, which were some refreshment to me.

“Nux,” which did much rejoice my spirit.

It seems to be a bait the devil lays to make men lose their precious time.

But now I may say as Psalm 137.1, “By the Rivers of Babylon, there we sate down: yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.” There one of them asked me why I wept. I could hardly tell what to say: Yet I answered, they would kill me. “No,” said he, “none will hurt you.” Then came one of them and gave me two spoonfuls of meal to comfort me, and another gave me half a pint of peas; which was more worth than many bushels at another time.

I cannot but take notice of the strange providence of God in preserving the heathen

hey would break my face

The first week of my being among them I hardly ate any thing; the second week I found my stomach grow very faint for want of something; and yet it was very hard to get down their filthy trash; but the third week, though I could think how formerly my stomach would turn against this or that, and I could starve and die before I could eat such things, yet they were sweet and savory to my taste

six years, and five months old.

About two hours in the night, my sweet babe like a lamb departed this life on Feb. 18, 1675

Captain Beers’s fight

Oh the number of pagans (now merciless enemies) that there came about me, that I may say as David, “I had fainted, unless I had believed, etc” (Psalm 27.13)

One of the Indians got up upon a horse, and they set me up behind him,

still the Lord upheld me with His gracious and merciful spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning.

Then they set me upon a horse with my wounded child in my lap, and there being no furniture upon the horse’s back, as we were going down a steep hill we both fell over the horse’s head, at which they, like inhumane creatures, laughed, and rejoiced to see it

I must turn my back upon the town

Little do many think what is the savageness and brutishness of this barbarous enemy

some roasting, some lying and burning, and some boiling to feed our merciless enemies

those black creatures

dolefulest

to live without the meanes is dangerous,

They leade a life, being voyde of care, which torments the mindes of fo hUg v/yd of many Chriftians

Englishman ; and then he would be a good man

(because they were good) went to the house of Kytan, pointing to the setting of the sun;

who feeds upon them (pointing to the Center of the Earth, ‘savages‘ where they imagine is the habitation of the Devil) the other,

one man and one woman

salvages are found to be without religion, law, and king (as Sir William Alexander has well observed) they are not altogether without the knowledge of God (historically.)

wickednes did grow & breake forth here

Who was so good, so just, so learn'd, so wise, From all the Kings on earth she won the prize.

Hast treasures there laid up in store That all in th' world thou count'st but poor?

I wash'd thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.

Who says my hand a needle better fits

he should send ye offender, that they might punish him.

advancemente of ye Christian faith

What could now sustaine them but the spirite of God & his grace?

they had now no freinds to wellcome them, nor inns to entertaine or refresh their weatherbeaten bodys, no houses or much less townes to repaire too, to seeke for succoure.

stones,

for if they would return to obedience to his Majesty they would be pardoned;

Indians of the Tanos and Pecos nations and the Queres of San Marcos, armed and giving war whoops.

This was the place where most of the forces of the kingdom were, and from which I could expect some help, but of three orders which I sent to the said lieutenant general, not one reached his hands.

this, and that it was already winter, we resolved to pass

At dawn they saw many more weeds, apparently river weeds, and among them a live crab, which the Admiral kept, and says that these are sure signs of land, being never found eighty leagues out at sea

The Ground Squirrel alone ventured to say a word in behalf of man, who seldom hurt him because he was so small; but this so enraged the others that they fell upon the Ground Squirrel and tore him with their teeth and claws, and the stripes remain on his back to this day.

Grubworm

In the old days quadrupeds, birds, fishes, and insects could all talk, and they and the human race lived together in peace and friendship.

Sacred Formulas

They were really very ill

“If I take this road I am likely to meet some people, but if I take the other road, I am not likely to meet anyone.”

The stage was therefore set for a perplexing and, for some, traumatic, encounter when trans-Atlantic contacts became protracted and formalized. Native Americans, quite familiar and at ease with the realities of cultural pluralism, were in a sense pre-adapted to regard the sudden appearance of "new" people with equanimity, and the historical record testifies that initially they did just that.

THE PEYOTE CULT