Researches Philosophical And Antiquarian Concerning the Aboriginal History of
Researches Philosophical And Antiquarian Concerning the Aboriginal History of
J H James Haines Mcculloh
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) In the expedition of Alvaro Nunez to Florida, A. D. 1533, one of the Indians gave the Spaniards "a thick and great bell of copper, with a visage engraven on it, which they said they had from their neighbours to the northward; wherefore we knew, that from what place soever it came, the art of melting and casting metals must needs be there. They also gave us many small plates of silver, and antimony made into a powder to paint with. " I have met with no account of bells having being made by any... of these people, and am therefore not without a suspi cion, that the Spanish leader had caused it to be given out he had procured it among the Indians, that he might enlist followers for the conquest of the country. Similar artifices were not uncommon on such occasions. Du Pratz (Hist. Louisiana, ii. 110, ) describes the Kanzas Indians, employing dogs for transporting burthens; they drew their loads on a kind of sledge made of two poles. I have not met with a more ancient account of this practice, but as dogs were found in great numbers in Florida by Soto, (Port.
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