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Page 234 - The clay and shale deposits of Nova Scotia and portions of New Brunswick, 1911 — by Heinrick Ries assisted by Joseph Keele.
Page 5 - I know, it can not be shown that the warriors did take some part either in clearing the ground or in cultivating the crop, and we find that even among them the work was not left exclusively to the women, but that it was shared by the children and the old men, as well as the slaves, of whom they seem to have had a goodly number.!
Page 235 - MEMOIR 27. Geological Series 17. Report of the Commission appointed to investigate Turtle mountain, Frank, Alberta, 1911, issued 1912.
Page 234 - New species of shells collected by Mr. John Macoun at Barkley sound, Vancouver island, British Columbia— by William H.
Page 5 - That whilst, as a fact, the women, children, old men, and slaves always cultivated the fields, yet the warriors cleared the ground, and, when not engaged in war or hunting, aided in working and harvesting the crop, though the amount of such assistance varied, being greater among the tribes south of the Ohio, and less among the Iroquois or Six Nations.
Page 120 - Besides their eating of them after our ordinarie maner, they breake them with stones and pound them in morters with water to make a milk which they use to put into some sorts of their spoonmeate; also among their sodde wheat, peaze, beanes and pompions which maketh them have a farre more pleasant taste.
Page 235 - Geological Series. Geology of the coast and islands between the Strait of Georgia and Queen Charlotte sound, BC — by J. Austen Bancroft. MEMOIR 25. No. 21, Geological Series. Report on the clay and shale deposits of the western provinces (Part III) — by Heinrich Ries and Joseph Keele.