Fresh Water Shell Mounds of the St. John's River, FloridaAMS Press, 1875 - 94 páginas |
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abundance aft diameter alligator ancient arrowheads Bartram Bartram's Mound Blue Spring bones of animals bones were found broken burial mounds Busycon Busycon carica cannibalism Cedar Keys coast cruelty deer deposit of shells described eaten edges enemies excavations existed feast fire flattening Florida fragments groove ground Hawkinsville head Horse Landing human bones human flesh humerus hundred feet Huntoon Creek Huntoon Island Ibid inches Indians inhabitants instrument Iroquois John's River killed lagoon Lake Dexter Lake George Lake Harney Lake Monroe large numbers left bank miles millimetres mouth Moyne nearly Old Enterprise Old Town Orange Bluff ornaments Osceola Mound Peabody Museum pieces portion pottery prisoner ridges right bank sand savage seen shell field shell heaps shell mounds shore side skeleton skull species stone implements surface swamp thick thigh tibia tibiæ transverse trees trunk turtle ulna vessel victims Vimont
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Página 35 - Eastward across the river, we behold a landscape of low country, unparalleled as I think; on the left is the East coast of the little lake, which I had just passed, and from the Orange bluff at the lower end, the high forests begin, and increase in breadth from the shore of the lake, making a circular sweep to the right, and contain many hundred thousand acres of meadow, and this grand sweep of high forests encircles, as I apprehend, at least twenty miles of these green fields, interspersed with...
Página 59 - The Floridians when they travel have a kind of herb dried, who with a cane and an earthen cup in the end, with fire and the dried herbs put together, do suck through the cane the smoke thereof, which smoke satisfieth their hunger, and therewith they live four or five days without meat or drink. And this all the Frenchmen used for this purpose; yet do they hold opinion withal that it causeth water and phlegm to void from their stomachs.
Página 36 - I had taken up my lodging on the border of an ancient burying ground, containing sepulchres or tumuli of the Yamasees, who were here slain by the Creeks in the last decisive battle, the Creeks having driven them into this point, between the doubling of the river, where few of them escaped the fury of the conquerors.
Página 35 - ... where I intended to lodge; and agreeably to my wishes, I soon after discovered on the west shore a little promontory, at the turning of the river, contracting it here to about one hundred and fifty yards in width. This promontory is a peninsula, containing about three acres of high ground, and is one entire orange grove, with a few live oaks, magnolias and palms. Upon doubling the point, I arrived at the landing, which is a circular harbour, at the foot of the bluff, the top of which is about...
Página 70 - The most loathsome part of the story— the manner in which the body of the sacrificed captive was disposed of— remains yet to be told. It was delivered to the warrior who had taken him in battle, and by him, after being dressed, was served up in an entertainment to his friends. This was not the coarse repast of famished cannibals, but a banquet teeming with delicious beverages and delicate viands, prepared with art, and attended by both sexes, who, as we shall see hereafter, conducted themselves...
Página 64 - They are not supposed to be the only ones which existed, for they were all but one chance discoveries. In all but a single instance there was nothing to direct attention to one place rather than another in making excavations, and as these were begun at random it is all but certain that many others escaped detection. It would perhaps be going too far to say that the presence of human bones, under the circumstances above described, amounted to absolute proof of cannibalism. The testimony of eye-witnesses...
Página 35 - I apprehend, at least twenty miles of these green fields, interspersed with hommocks or islets of evergreen trees, where the sovereign magnolia and lordly palm stand conspicuous. The islets are high shelly knolls, on the sides of creeks or branches of the river, which wind about and drain off the superabundant waters that cover these meadows during the winter season.
Página 71 - IttM, p. 120. ripped from his body, cut in pieces, broiled, and given to the young men under the belief that it would increase their courage; they drank his blood, thinking it would make them more wary, and finally his body was divided limb from limb, roasted or thrown into the seething pot, and hands and feet, arms and legs, head and trunk, were all stewed into a horrid mess, and eaten amidst yells, songs and dances...
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 | Tracing Archaeology's Past: The Historiography of Archaeology Andrew L. Christenson Sin vista previa disponible - 1989 |