The book of the Indians of North America Illustrating Their Manners Customs a
The book of the Indians of North America Illustrating Their Manners Customs a
1787 1854 Old Humphrey
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They must look very beautiful. Hunter. They do : but when a fire takes place in a low bottom of long grass, sedge, and tangled dry plants, more than six feet high ; and when a rushing wind urges on the fiery ruin, flashing like the lightning and roaring like the thunder ; the appearance is not beautiful, but terrible. I have heard the shrill war-whoop, and the clash of contend ing tomahawks in the fight, . When no quarter has been given. I have witnessed the wild burst, where Niagara, a river o...f waters, flings itself headlong down the Horseshoe Fall ; and I have been exposed to the fury of the hurricane. But none of these are half so terrible, as the flaming ocean of a long-grass prairie fire. Austin. Oh ! it must be terrible. Hunter. The trapper is bold, or he is not fit for nis call ing ; the hunter is brave, or he could never wage war as he does with danger ; and the Indian from his childhood is familiar with peril : yet the Indian, the hunter, and the A PRAIRIE ON FIRE. 147 trapper tremble, as well they may, at a prairie meadow are.
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