 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - 1859 - 212 pagine
...impossible either to proceed or return, they formed small villages, " whose race," adds Barcia,3 writing in water, "which she said came from the spring of the Great Spirit, and if I should drink of it, I should return and live with her for ever." (Sprague, Hist. Florida War, p. 328.)... | |
 | Albert Gallatin Brackett - 1865 - 358 pagine
...with bright silver ornaments. The long black hair, which I had often braided, hung down her back. She clasped me around the neck, and said, ' Coacooche...would drink from it I should return and live with her forever. As I drank she sang the peace-song of the Seminoles, and danced around me. She had silver... | |
 | Ledyard Bill - 1870 - 292 pagine
...fell down upon her back. She clasped me around the neck and said, ' Coa-cou-chee ! Coa-cou-chee ! ' I shook with fear. I knew her voice, but could not...the other, she held a cup sparkling with pure water. As I drank, she sang the peace-song of the Seminoles, and danced around me. She had silver bells on... | |
 | James Lowry Donaldson - 1871 - 348 pagine
...braided, hung down her back. She clasped me around the neck, and said, ' Coa-Coochee ! Coa-Coochee !' I shook with fear. I knew her voice, but could not...white beads ; in the other she held a cup sparkling \\ ith pure water, which, she said, came from the spring of the Great Spirit, and, if I would drink... | |
 | Thérèse Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore) - 1875 - 356 pagine
...often braided, fell down her back. She clasped me round the neck and said, ' Coacouchee ! Coacouchee !' I shook with fear. I knew her voice, but could not...the other she held a cup sparkling with pure water. As I drank, she sang the peace-song of the Seminoles, and danced round me. She had silver bells on... | |
 | Daniel Garrison Brinton - 1876 - 362 pagine
...visited the happy hunting grounds and saw my twin sister, long since gone. She offered me a cup of pure water, which she said came from the spring of the Great Spirit, and if I should drink of it, I should return and live with her forever." 1 Some such mysthat this practice was... | |
 | Eugene Crowell - 1881 - 554 pagine
...often braided, hung down her back. She clasped me around the neck and said, ' Coacoochee, Coacoochee.' I shook with fear. I knew her voice, but could not...would drink from it, I should return and live with her forever. " As I drank she sang the peace song of the Seminoles and danced around me. She had silver... | |
 | William Whitwell Dewhurst - 1881 - 204 pagine
...braided fell down upon her back. She clasped me around the neck and said, ' Coa-couche, Coa-cou-che.' I shook with fear ; I knew her voice, but could not...the other she held a cup sparkling with pure water ; as I drank she sang the peace song of the Seminoles, and danced around me. She had silver bells upon... | |
 | Max Bloomfield - 1882 - 124 pagine
...braided, fell down upon her back; she clasped me around the neck, and said, ' Coa-cou-che ! Coa-cou-che !' I shook with fear. I knew her voice, but could not...the other she held a cup sparkling with pure water; as I drank she sang the peace song of the Seminoles, and danced around me ; she had silver bells around... | |
 | Max Bloomfield - 1883 - 114 pagine
...bral. , fell down upon her back; she clasped me around the neck, and said, ' Coa-cou-che! Coa-cou-che!' I shook with fear. I knew her voice, but could not...the other she held a cup sparkling with pure water; as I drank she sang the peace song of the Seminoles, and danced around me ; she had silver bells around... | |
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I shook with fear, I knew her voice, but could not speak. With one hand, she gave me a string of white beads; in the other, she held a cup sparkling with pure water, which she said came from the spring of the Great Spirit: and if I would drink from it,... 
