Which preposition to use with natives
But in the interior they are placed in parallel circumstances with the natives of Europe: they are engaged in struggles for territory and dominionfor their altars and their homes; and this state of things, which has made some of them brave and warlike, has made none poets or painters, historians or philosophers.
Every day when school was over, Mary went to visit the natives in their homes.
And has it seemed, sometimes, That drowning might be pleasanter up there Among the icebergs, native to those climes, Than where
This act of justice gained for the settlers the esteem and confidence of the Indians; and as these original possessors of the soil did not dispute the title of the newcomers to the portion of the American soil on which they had established themselves, they considered henceforth that their claim was valid, and that they could stand before the natives on terms of equality.
One of the Christians killed a native with a gun.
The natives at Itu started to build a six-room house at Itu for Mary.
The beach filled with natives from the village who wanted to see the chiefs start on their trip.
When he drew near the city the natives for a moment listened to their rulers and made terms with him and gave hostages, but afterward shut their gates and accepted a state of siege.
Interview with the Natives of Luxmore Head.
There are a great many romantic traditions about this same ROGERS, who is regarded by the simple natives as having been an altogether high-minded and gorgeous
He conciliated the natives by paying honors to their gods.
Every day she would tell the natives about Jesus.
"Isn't it going to make a difference with the work by and by, if you get so many natives into places of responsibility?
The English courts of justice there were more terrible to the natives than the very wrongs they pretended to redress.
The head of Wattawamat was brought to New Plymouth, and the dreadful trophy was conspicuously placed over the entrance to the fortress, as a warning to the natives against any future conspiracies for the destruction of the white men.
The next day, whilst the people were at dinner, Boongaree, whose eyes were constantly directed to the shore, espied five natives among the grass, which was so high as nearly to conceal them, walking towards our wooding-place; and, as they proceeded, it was perceived that they had stolen one of our station-flags, four of which had been erected on the beach to mark the baseline.
" When Mac and the Boy brought the sled home a couple of days later, it was found that a portion of its cargo consisted of a toy kyak and two bottles of hootchino, the maddening drink concocted by the natives out of fermented dough and sugar.
But this is not the case with newly introduced disease; for the sleeping sickness that came to Uganda along the caravan routes from the Congo, has swept away fully a million of the natives along the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza.
Two large armies were collected, nearly all the lords of the Pale and their followers being upon one side, under the banner of Kildare, a vast and undisciplined horde of natives under Clanricarde upon the other, and the slaughter is said to have exceeded 8,000.
As Pastor Marzial speaks English well, I clung to him in the hope of having him for an interpreter; but he encouraged me to speak as well as I could in French, as the natives like it much better, and consider it a compliment to their language.
Two bears had been killed by the natives near the barabara where we camped, and there was plenty of sign.
" Moffat had hitherto taught the natives through an interpreter.
Attacked by Natives in Knocker's Bay.
Interview with the Natives at Rockingham Bay, and loss of a boat off Cape Tribulation.
[Footnote 10: Speaking of these settlements in 1750, M. Viner, a Jesuit Missionary to the Indians, said: "We have here Whites, Negroes, and Indians, to say nothing of cross-breedsThere are five French villages and three villages of the natives within a space of twenty-one leaguesIn the five French villages there are perhaps eleven hundred whites, three hundred blacks, and some sixty red slaves or savages."