| Theodore Irving - 1835 - 298 pagini
...Florida. The natives always endeavoured to build upon high ground, or at least to erect the houses of the Cacique or Chief, upon an eminence. As the country...found, they constructed artificial mounds of earth, the top of each being capable of containing from ten to twenty houses. Here resided the Cacique, his... | |
| Theodore Irving - 1835 - 304 pagini
...or at least to erect the houses of the Cacique or Chief, upon an eminence. As the country was yery level, and high places seldom to be found, they constructed artificial mounds of earth, the top of each being capable of containing from ten to twenty houses. Here resided the Cacique, his... | |
| Theodore Irving - 1857 - 470 pagini
...Florida. The natives always endeavored to build upon high ground, or at least to erect the houses of the cacique or chief upon an eminence. As the country...found, they constructed artificial mounds of earth, the top of each being capable of containing from ten to twenty houses. Here resided the cacique, his... | |
| 1893 - 926 pagini
...: "The natives always endeavor to build upon high ground, or, at least, to erect the houses of the cacique, or chief, upon an eminence. As the country...found, they constructed artificial mounds of earth, the top of each being capable of containing from ten to twenty houses. Here resided the cacique, his... | |
| Kate Asaphine Levi - 1898 - 53 pagini
...formerly peopled by a nation whose habits were very different, and in all appearance more civilised than those of the races which were found here; and...distinguished inhabitants. " I consider the Wisconsin tertitory as the finest portion of North America, not only from its soil, but its climate. The air... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1839 - 256 pagini
...Florida. The natives always endeavoured to bnild upon high ground, or at least to erect the house of iheir cacique or chief upon an eminence. As the country...round which were the houses of the leaders and most distin- * guished inhabitant?." I consider tlte Wisconsin territory as the finest portion "[North America,... | |
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