 It ought to have been mentioned in its proper place, that in making our retreat up the river, after killing the Esquimaux on the West side, we saw an old woman sitting by the side of the water, killing salmon, which lay at the foot of the fall as thick...  The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia - Page 179by Sven Nilsson - 1868 - 272 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sven Nilsson, Sir John Lubbock - 1868 - 392 pages
...copper in the neighbourhood, which the Esquimaux beat between stones into axes, knives, etc, f This word is, in the Esquimaux language, meant to be a...with a leister armed with a few points. The fish were ao abundant, that when the leister was thrust into the water natural defect in the old woman's hearing,... | |
 | 1911 - 524 pages
...though close under them, as the bank, on which they stood, stretched over them. It ought to have been mentioned in its proper place, that in making our...sitting by the side of the water, killing salmon, 1 which lay at the foot of the fall as thick as a shoal of herrings. Whether from the noise of the... | |
 | 1911 - 536 pages
...though close under them, as the bank, on which they stood, stretched over them. It ought to have been mentioned in its proper place, that in making our...old woman sitting by the side of the water, killing salmon,1 which lay at the foot of the fall as thick as a shoal of herrings. Whether from the noise... | |
 | Samuel Hearne, Joseph Burr Tyrrell - 1911 - 518 pages
...though close under them, as the bank, on which they stood, stretched over them. It ought to have been mentioned in its proper place, that in making our...old woman sitting by the side of the water, killing salmon,1 which lay at the foot of the fall as thick as a shoal of herrings. Whether from the noise... | |
 | Ernest J. Chambers, Canada. Department of the Interior. Railway Lands Branch - 1914 - 432 pages
...Eskimos at Bloody falls (as he called the spot after the massacre), saw an old woman, almost blind, "sitting by the side of the water, killing salmon,...foot of the fall as thick as a shoal of herrings. " Hearne proceeds : — "It may appear strange, that a person supposed to be almost blind should be... | |
 | Paul Leland Haworth - 1921 - 374 pages
...descent of perhaps fifteen feet, they came upon an old Eskimo woman sitting by the river, engaged in " killing salmon, which lay at the foot of the fall...herrings. Whether from the noise of the fall, or a natural defect in the old woman's hearing, it is hard to determine, but certain it is, she had no knowledge... | |
 | Germaine Warkentin - 2006 - 599 pages
...though close under them, as the bank, on which they stood, stretched over them. It ought to have been mentioned in its proper place, that in making our...herrings. Whether from the noise of the fall, or a natural defect in the old woman's hearing, it is hard to determine, but certain it is, she had no knowledge... | |
 | 1928 - 760 pages
...Canada is shown by one of Hearne's6 stories. On the Coppermine river "he saw an old woman, almost blind, sitting by the side of the water, killing salmon which...foot of the fall as thick as a shoal of herrings. Their numbers at this place were almost incredible, perhaps equal to anything that is '. O'Neill, JJ:... | |
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