 | 1829 - 612 pages
...such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison. ' Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons murdered was thirty-eight ; those... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1842 - 672 pages
...such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison. • twelve miles through rocks and wildernesses, ere they could reach any place of safety oir shelter.... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - 448 pages
...such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison. Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons murdered was thirty-eight; those who... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - Scotland - 1833 - 496 pages
...such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and drove them oft' to the garrison of Fort William. Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - Literature - 1835 - 460 pages
...such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and drove them off to the garrison. Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons murdered was thirty-eight ; those... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1836 - 480 pages
...such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and...fifty males, who, with the women and children of The friendly hearth which warm'd that hand, At midnight arra'd it with the brand, That bade destruction's... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English drama - 1846 - 638 pages
...the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and droTe them off to the garrison of Fort William. Thus ended...the women and children of the tribe, had to fly more thau twelve miles through rocks and wildernesses ere they could reach any place of safety or shelter.... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English drama - 1846 - 284 pages
...tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and sheep, and ,lro»B them off to the garrison of Fort William. , Thus ended...those who escaped might amount to a hundred and fifty mains, who, with the women and children of the tribe, had to fly more than twelve miles through rocks... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English drama - 1846 - 278 pages
...such house* as were yet uuconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and...William. Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. Tbe number of persons murdered was thirty-eight ; those who escaped might amount to a hundred and fifty... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 462 pages
...such houses as were yet unconsumed, they collected the property of the tribe, consisting of twelve hundred head of cattle and horses, besides goats and...fifty males, who, with the women and children of The friendly hearth which warm'd that hand. At midnight arm'd it with the brand, TliHt bade destruction's... | |
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Thus ended this horrible deed of massacre. The number of persons murdered was thirty-eight ; those who escaped might amount to a hundred and fifty males, who, with the women and children of the... 
