Author: W.H.G KingstonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752318120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Grateful Indian by W.H.G Kingston
The Grateful Indian
Author: W.H.G KingstonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752318120
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Grateful Indian by W.H.G Kingston
The Grateful Indian and other Stories
Author: William Henry Giles KingstonPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465596151
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Languages : en
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There are different tribes. Some are called Crees, others Ojibways or Salteaux, and these are constantly at war with the Sioux to the south, chiefly found across the United States boundary. There are also found on the prairies Assiniboines, Blackfeet, Bloodies, and others with scarcely more attractive names. All these people were at that time sunk in the most abject state of heathenism, and were constantly at war with each other. They were clothed chiefly in skins made into leather, ornamented with feathers and stained grass and beads. The tents of the prairie Indians were of skins, and those of the Indians who inhabit the woods of birch bark. Many had rifles, but others were armed only with bows and spears, and the dreadful scalping-knife. Of these people the Sioux bore the worst character, and were the great enemies of the half-bred population of the settlements. These halfbreds, as they are called, are descended from white fathers and Indian mothers. There are some thousands of them in the settlements, and they live chiefly by hunting and fishing, and retain many Indian customs and habits of life. Such was the strangely mixed community among whom we found ourselves. The autumn was coming on, and the days were shortening, but the weather was very fineÑsharp frosts at night, though warm enough, yet bracing, with a bright sky and pure atmosphere during the day. Sometimes a light silvery mist or haze hung over the landscape. Such is the Indian summer, the most delightful period of the year in North America. The dayÕs work was over, and while my brother and I were preparing the table, and Sam Dawes was cooking the supper, we were startled by a loud and peculiar shout, or rather shriek. Our father, who had been sitting reading, started up, and taking his rifle from the wall, turned to the door. Sam, quitting his frying-pan, also took down his rifle and followed with us. In the distance was an Indian decked with war paint and feathers bounding over the ground towards us, while further off were five or six more, as if in hot pursuit of the first.
The Grateful Indian
Author: W. H. G. KingstonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781514636299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Grateful Indian
The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son"
Author: William Henry Giles KingstonPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465596763
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Languages : en
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My great ambition as a boy was to be a sailor; the idea of becoming one occupied my thoughts by day and influenced my dreams by night. I delighted in reading naval histories and exploits and tales of the sea, and I looked upon Rodney, Howe, Nelson, and Saint Vincent, as well as Duncan, Collingwood, Exmouth, and Sir Sidney Smith, as far greater men, and more worthy of admiration, than all the heroes of antiquity put togetherÑan opinion which I hold even to the present day, and which, I hope, all my readers will maintain with me. Once it happened during my summer holidays that, most unwillingly, I was taken up to London. During the time, a naval friend, having compassion on me, suggested that I might find matter of interest by a trip to Greenwich, and a visit to the Hospital. I jumped at the proposal. I can never forget the feelings with which I entered the wide, smooth space on which that beautiful collection of buildings stands, forming the Royal Hospital for Seamen, with its broad terrace facing the river, and found myself surrounded by many hundreds of the gallant veterans who had maintained not only so nobly the honour of Old England on the deep, but had contributed to preserve her from the numberless foes who had threatened her with destruction. The building is of itself interesting. On this spot once stood the Royal Palace of Placentia, in which no less than four successive sovereigns were bornÑHenry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, Mary, and Elizabeth. Charles the Second had intended to rebuild it, but left it unfinished; and it was put into the heart of good Queen Mary, the wife of William of Orange, to establish that noble institution for the reception of the disabled seamen of the Royal Navy, which, much augmented in size, has ever since existed the noblest monument to a sovereignÕs memory.
The Grateful Indian
Author: H. G. W. KingstonPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781437829006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Grateful Indian
Author: William Henry Giles KingstonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505334500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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"[...]have no dry spot on which to rest our feet. We might climb up into the trees, but we had seen other trees washed away, and such might be the fate of these our last refuge. The day wore on, the storm ceased, and the weather again became calm and beautiful. I now grew excessively hungry, and cried very much, and felt more wretched than I had ever done before. Malcolm, who bore up wonderfully, tried to comfort me, and suggested that we should hunt about foe roots or underground nuts such as we had seen the Indians eat. We fortunately had our pocket knives, and with these we [...]".
The Grateful Indian
Author: William Giles KingstonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499350159
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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We cannot boast of many fine evenings in old England-dear old England for all that!-and when they do come they are truly lovely and worthy of being prized the more. It was on one of the finest of a fine summer that Mr Frampton, the owner of a beautiful estate in Devonshire, was seated on a rustic bench in his garden, his son Harry, who stood at his knee, looking up inquiringly into his face.
We Are Grateful
Author: Traci SorellPublisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430144149
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This authentic, loving celebration of gratitude & community—written by a citizen of the Cherokee nation—follows celebrations and experiences through the seasons of a year, underscoring the traditions and ways of Cherokee life.
The Grateful Indian (Esprios Classics)
Author: W H G KingstonPublisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781034946250
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
William Henry Giles Kingston (28 February 1814 - 5 August 1880), often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels. His first book The Circassian Chief appeared in 1844. His first book for boys Peter the Whaler was published in 1851 and had such success that he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to the production of this kind of literature and, during 30 years, he wrote upwards of 130 tales. He also conducted various papers, including The Colonist and Colonial Magazine and East India Review. He was also interested in emigration, volunteering, and various philanthropic schemes. He received a Portuguese knighthood for services in negotiating a commercial treaty with Portugal, and a Government pension for his literary labours.
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