Scenes and Studies of Savage LifeSmith, Elder and Company, 1868 - 317 หน้า |
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aborigines Ahousaht Aht Indians Aht language Aht natives Aht tribes Alberni Alberni inlet animals appear attack beaver berries black-tailed deer blankets boat body British Columbia canoe Cap-chah cedar CHAPTER Chay-her chief Chinook Chinook jargon Chinook language civilized coast of Vancouver Columbia River common dance deer district dogs encampment English feast feet fire fish forest friends gammass George Reid GILBERT MALCOLM SPROAT hair halibut head hunter hunting inlet instance Klah-oh-quaht Ky-yoh-quahts lakes land mahte marriage marten means mode Moouchahts mountains muskets nation night Nitinaht or Barclay Nootkah observed occupied Ohyahts paddle person probably quahts Quawteaht racoon rank river roots round salmon savage seen Seshahts settlement ship shore side slaves sorcerers soul Sound speak spear spirits stone stream Toquaht trees tribal Vancouver Island village west coast whale whole wind winter women wood wooden word
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หน้า 187 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
หน้า 100 - being fully aroused, he often shows much quickness ' in reply and ingenuity in argument. But a short ' conversation wearies him, particularly if questions are ' asked that require efforts of thought or memory on...
หน้า 100 - The native mind, to an educated man, seems generally to be asleep. * * * On his attention being fully aroused, he often shows much quickness in reply and ingenuity in argument. But a short conversation wearies him, particularly if questions are asked that require efforts of thought or memory on his part. The niind of the savage then appears to rock to and fro out of mere weakness.
หน้า 46 - The Indian singer often acts while he sings or dances, representing at the same time a certain scene from life. Sproat describes one of those dances, where a man appears with his arms tied behind his back with long cords, the ends of which are held by other natives, who drive him about. The spectators sing and beat time on their wooden dishes and bearskin drums. Suddenly the chief appears, and plunges his knife into the runner's back. Another blow is given, a third one, until the blood flows down...
หน้า 49 - After this a pail of vvater was brought in, and the doctor, who supported the dying man on his arm, washed the blood from his face; the people beat drums, danced, and sang, and suddenly the patient sprang to his feet and joined in the dance, none the worse for the apparently hopeless condition of the moment before. While all this was going on, I asked the giver of the feast whether it was real blood upon the man's face, and if he were really wounded. He told me so seriously that it was, that I was...
หน้า 185 - ... details of their theology. They try to hide from the prying and contemptuous foreigner their worship of gods ^who seem to shrink, like their worshippers, before the white man and his mightier Deity. Mr Sproat's experience in Vancouver's Island is an apt example of this state of things. He says : ' I was two years among the Ahts, with my mind constantly directed towards the subject of their religious beliefs, before I could discover that they possessed any ideas as to an overruling power or a...
หน้า 74 - Indians of Vancouver Island, when girls reach puberty they are placed in a sort of gallery in the house " and are there surrounded completely with mats, so that neither the sun nor any fire can be seen. In this cage they remain for several days. Water is given them, but no food. The longer a girl remains in this retirement the greater honour is it to the parents ; but she is disgraced for life if it is known that she has seen fire or the sun during this initiatory ordeal.
หน้า 252 - They had heard it said, and they were fearful words, that it was the law of nature that the coloured races should melt away before the advance of civilization. He would tell them where that law was registered, and who were its agents. It was registered in hell, and its agents were those whom Satan made twofold more the children of hell than himself.
หน้า 78 - The Ahts consider it a point of honour that the purchase-money given for a woman of rank shall, some time or other, be returned in a present of equal value.2 Similar statements are made with reference to the Patagonians,3 Mishmis,4 and certain tribes in the Indian Archipelago.5 Among the Bagobos of the Philippines, if the newly-married couple are satisfied with each other, the father of...