The other person referred to as having been since killed by this tribe of Apaches was a brave and experienced trapper, well known throughout the range of Indian depredations as a fearless and dangerous adversary.
Their policy in thus acting might have been to retain the friendship of these Indians and thus prevent their committing any depredations on themselves.
For the commonwealth, on the other hand, it was fortunate that the depredations of Prince Rupert had turned the attention of the leaders to naval concerns.
Thus the maritime trade of both countries was exposed to the depredations of private and national cruisers, while their respective governments were considered as remaining at peace.
Retiring into bogs and fastnesses, they formed bodies of armed men, and supported themselves and their followers by the depredations which they committed on the occupiers of their estates.
Spain was not the offending party; for the instances of aggression enumerated in the manifesto[a] were well known to have been no more than acts of self-defence against the depredations and encroachments of English adventurers.
The unhappy inhabitants were, therefore, exposed to the depredations of both.
This animal, in the early days of New Hampshire, often destroyed the husbandman’s hopes by his depredations on the green maize, of the milky ear of which he is especially fond.
Tradition says that Claudius Smith, after his depredations through the county, hid in this cleft of the rock.
During Revolutionary days the inhabitants of Orange County were terrorized by the depredations of Claudius Smith, a notorious outlaw, and his gang of ruffians, who were known as cowboys.
Their depredations began again in 1777, when the family of a Mr. Sprague in the northern part of the Minisink was attacked and some of them taken prisoners.
As an individual citizen of America, and as far as an individual can go, I have revenged (if I may use the expression without any immoral meaning) the piratical depredations committed on the American commerce by the English government.
For two months more Waddell continued his depredations in the northern seas.
In June, the enemy's depredations extended to the Massachusetts coast.
After the fall of Washington, the depredations of the British along the shores of Chesapeake Bay redoubled, and the marauding expeditions thus employed were really feelers thrown out to test the strength of the defenses of Baltimore.
To continue his depredationslonger would be piracy: so Capt.
The Chinese in general are much addicted to commit depredations on the pockets, or, in fact, on any unguarded property.
But besides this, it is in our own experience that the most sincere neutrality is not a sufficient guard against the depredations of nations at war.
A part of the Cherokees, known by the name of Chickamaugas, inhabiting five villages on the Tennessee River, have long been in the practice of committing depredations on the neighboring settlements.
I cannot say I have--at least of any depredationshere at Elvas.
In consequence of depredations of the Indians of the Sacramento valley and outrages committed by them, General Thomas J.
Their depredations heretofore have been confined generally to horse-stealing, and only occasionally have murders been committed by them.
At the period of his arrival there the Province of Sonora was devastated by the Alpaca Indians, who committed all sorts of depredations with impunity.
The gardener could not account for the depredations committed on his potager till accident led him to discover the mystery.
They are notorious petty thieves and robbers, and during their annual migrations commit serious depredationsupon the settled inhabitants of the district on their way, and more especially upon the Christians.
It was preferable to the disorders and conflagrations and depredations of preceding times.
The allodialist owned indeed his lands, but they were subject to incessant depredations from wandering tribes of barbarians and from robbers.
They continued, these depredations for near a week, when the Clay County Militia was ordered out.
Had this trade been protected, as it should have been, by putting down the bands of robbers, who rendered the roads unsafe by their depredations and atrocities, it would have become of more value than any trade to Santa Fe.
Many among them had gone to sell the produce of their depredations to the Cherokees, who not only did not condescend to deal with them, but punished them with rigour, subjecting them to their own code of laws.
We are therefore led to believe, that the passage of the Rhône through the lake, in its present state, is not a thing of long existence, compared with the depredations which time had made by that river upon the earth above the lake.
Or, shall we conceive that the sea, which has made such depredations in land composed of much more solid materials, had spared this, and had not wasted much more than that now pointed out by the ruins which remain?
At night they emerge from their hiding-places, and commit depredations on the secessionists.
It is stated that there are 800 in Randolph County, committing depredations on the rich farmers, etc.
They committed many depredationsamong the settlers and cherished resentment against the agent, Mr. Meeker.
Rumors of Indian depredationswere of every day occurrence.
Doc Middleton was the notorious outlaw whose depredations had become so terrorizing to the settlers of Nebraska that the State had offered a reward of $5,000 for his capture, dead or alive.
These depredations were becoming daily more numerous and alarming, and repeated petitions had been sent in from all parts of the colony calling upon Sir William Berkley in the most urgent terms to afford them protection.
These, however, only served to stimulate his obstinacy, while the continued depredations of the Indians wrought up the general feeling of dissatisfaction into a blaze of discontent.
By these he was greeted and cheered upon his way, as well as informed of the depredations committed in the neighbourhood whence they had come.
So few valuables are ever sent by the post, that thieves never attempt any depredations on the letter-bags.
Some of the best, in appearance, are extremely rotten, and can only be kept afloat by constant baling, in consequence either of the depredations of worms, or of the number of years they may have been built.
They are both very ferocious, commit great depredations among the other birds in the woods, and on the plantations often destroy fowls and house pigeons.
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