 | Alexander Henry - Canada - 1809 - 364 pages
...pursuit of a rude athletic exerelse.Nothing could be less fitted to excite premature alarm—nothing, therefore, could be more happily devised, under the circumstances, than a stratagem like this ; and this was, in fact, the stratagem which the Indians had employed, by which they had obtained possession... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...pursuit of a rude athletic exercise. Nothing could be less fitted to excite premature alarmnothing, therefore, could be more happily devised, under the circumstances, than a stratagem like this; and this was, in fact, the stratagem which the Indians had employed, by which they had obtained possession... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - Indians of North America - 1846 - 632 pages
...unrestrained pursuit of a rude athletic exercise. Nothing could be less fitted to excite premature alarm ; nothing, therefore, could be more happily devised,...the circumstances, than a stratagem like this ; and this was, in fact, the slrategem which the Indians had employed, by which they had obtained possession... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1851 - 536 pages
...unrestrained pursuit of a rude athletic exercise. Nothing could be less fitted to excite premature alarm ; nothing, therefore, could be more happily devised,...the circumstances, than a stratagem like this ; and this was, in fact, the stratagem which the Indians had employed, by which they had obtained possession... | |
 | John Alexander McClung - Indian captivities - 1852 - 344 pages
...instant by all engaged in the game, as well the one party as the other, all eager, all struggling, all shouting, in the unrestrained pursuit of a rude athletic...the circumstances, than a stratagem like this; and jt was in fact the stratagem which the Indians employed to obtain possession of the fort, and by which... | |
 | Henry Rowe Schoolcraft - Indian captivities - 1853 - 534 pages
...unrestrained pursuit of . rude athletic exercise. Nothing could be less tilted to excite premature alarm ; nothing, therefore, could be more happily devised,...the circumstances, than a stratagem like this ; and this wan, in fuel, the stratagem which the Indians had employed, by which they hud obtained possession... | |
 | John Alexander McClung - Indian captivities - 1872 - 456 pages
...aiíiletic exercise. Nothing, therefore, could be more happily devised, under the cireum-tanet's, then a stratagem like this; and it was in fact the stratagem which the Indians employed to obtain |K>sscs-i'in of the fort, and by which they were enabled to slaughter and subdue it.- garrison, and... | |
 | 1921 - 386 pages
...unrestrained pursuit of a rude athletic exercise. iNbthing could be less fitted to excite premature alarm — nothing, therefore, could be more happily devised,...the circumstances, than a stratagem like this; and this was in fact the stratagem which the Indians ftad employed, by which they had obtained possession... | |
 | American essays - 1883 - 998 pages
...pursuit of a rude athletic exercise. Nothing could be less likely to excite premature alarm. Nothing could be more happily devised, under the circumstances, than a stratagem like this ; and this was in fact the stratagem which the Indians had employed, and by which they had obtained possession... | |
 | American essays - 1888 - 974 pages
...a rude athletic exercise. Nothing could be less likely to excite premature abirm. Nothing could he more happily devised, under the circumstances, than a stratagem like this ; and this was in fact the stratagem which the Indians had employed, and by which they had obtained possession... | |
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shouting, in the unrestrained pursuit of a rude athletic exercise ; nothing, therefore, could be more happily devised, under the circumstances, than a stratagem like this ; and it was, in fact, the stratagem which the Indians employed to obtain possession... 
