 | 1905 - 388 pages
...firewood in convenient proximity, and to secure fields more fertile than those that were abandoned. This is not done without difficulty; for, inasmuch...so that a single family will hire sometimes 80 or 100 persons ; and these are in turn obliged to render the same service to those who may require it... | |
 | Iroquois Indians - 1905 - 388 pages
...firewood in convenient proximity, and to secure fields more fertile than those that were abandoned. This is not done without difficulty ; for, inasmuch...so that a single family will hire sometimes 80 or 100 persons ; and these are in turn obliged to render the same service to those who may require it... | |
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... transporting their corn, their effects and their cabins to a place 2 leagues distant from their former residence, where they had dwelt for 19 years. They make this change in order to have there their firewood in convenient proximity, and to secure... 