This was a solemn feast and was called the Funeral Pile of Widowhood, and that tribe in which most women had been burned was the most respected.

" "Our tribe is the Delaware," said the old Indian woman evasively" they came from the great woods like a river.

This town belongs to the province of Hhaha, whose Berber tribes are its natural defenders.

The Indian tribes were the subject of observation made by General Cass.

It was this capacity for hiding, or taking advantage of cover, that gave them their great superiority; and it is because of this that the wood tribes were so much more formidable foes in actual battle than the horse Indians of the plains afterwards proved themselves.

But these tribes were the bitter enemies of the Iroquois, who dwelt in what is now central New York, and when, in consequence of this alliance, the French were summoned to take the warpath, Champlain, with a few followers, went, and on the shore of the lake which now bears his name, not far from the site of Ticonderoga, he met and defeated the Iroquois tribe of Mohawks in July, 1609.

The clans became townships, and the tribes became shires or counties; that is to say, the names were applied first to the people and afterwards to the land they occupied.

The unfortunate Huzareh tribe are constantly the sufferers, and the traveller will recognize more slaves of that than of any other "clan.

The Shereefs always compound with them, if they can, these primitive tribes being so many centres of an imperium imperio, or of revolt and disaffection.

"The thirty five tribes to their patron." Is then Lucius Antonius the patron of the Roman people?

These Mahomet refused to receive unless the tribe became converts to Islam.

It is low down in the intellectual scale, its component tribes are usually migratory savages, and its dialects are extremely synthetic and of difficult phonetics, requiring as many as sixty-five letters for their proper orthography.

The chief tribes were the Iroquois proper,forming a confederacy in central New York known as the Five Nations (Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, Oneidas, and Mohawks),the Hurons, the Eries, the Cherokees, and the Tuscaroras.

[10] This tribe of Assenhaji, or Azanaghi, are the Zenhaga of our maps, and the Sanhagae of Edrisi and Abulfeda.

Then follows a long roll of ages when the tribe is the highest social unit.

It was an evil day for the brown race of New Mexico when horses strayed from the Spanish settlements into the desert, and the savage red tribes became cavalry.

On our southwestern border the Creek tribes, who, yielding to our persevering endeavors, were gradually acquiring more civilized habits, became the unfortunate victims of seduction.

Our tribes are ten distinguished friends of the family of Han.

THUS THE PIG TRIBE, though not a ruminating mammal, as might be inferred from the number of its molar teeth, is yet a link between the herbivorous and the carnivorous tribes, and is consequently what is known as an omnivorous quadruped; or, in other words, capable of converting any kind of aliment into nutriment.

HINDU KUSH, a lofty mountain range stretching 365 m. from the western extremity of the Himalayas, from which it is cut off by the valley of the Indus into Afghanistan, which it divides from Turkestan; it attains an elevation of 23,000 ft.; is crossed by several passes, and is rich in minerals, especially iron; the tribes that inhabit it are chiefly Shins and Dards.

It is probable, also, that they fully expected the tribe of which Dick was the chief to be at his heels.

In like manner, two German tribes became the master races in Spain.

The country, however, between the Ebro and the Pyrenees was still free, and its tribes were not only the natural allies of the Romans, but had also, like the Saguntines, received from Roman emissaries promises of speedy assistance.

While he prophesied that Manasseh should be great, Ephraim he said should be greater,verified in the fact that the tribe of Ephraim was the largest of all the tribes, and the most powerful until the captivity.

Griffith declares that the hill tribes of India are "the dirtier the farther we advance;" elsewhere we read: "Both males and females, as a class, are very dirty and filthy in both person and habits.