The proximity of countries in which cheap labour predominates counterbalances the minimum demand of white men in these parts.
White men, unable to read the secret signs of its existence, have perished in all the agonies of thirst in country in which water, from a black fellow's point of view, was plentiful and comparatively easy to reach.
They manifested no fear of white men, and stood in groups on the bank gazing in astonishment at the steamers, especially at the "Pearl," which accompanied us thus far up the river.
We saw but few natives, and these, by escaping from their canoes into the mangrove thickets the moment they caught sight of us, gave unmistakeable indications that they had no very favourable opinion of white men.
Mochokotsa was told to say to Sekeletu that the disease was known of old to white men, and we even knew the medicine to prevent it; and, were there any danger now, we should be the first to warn him of it.
Your brother is acquainted with the Wasungu (white men), and knows that what they promise they make good.
Taken as a body, it would be hard to find a more generous or hospitable colony of white menin any part of the world.
The idea had struck me before, that if I could obtain the services of a few men acquainted with the ways of white men, and who could induce other good men to join the expedition I was organizing, I might consider myself fortunate.
White men do not leave their country to fight the black people, neither do they come here to buy ivory or slaves.
It was made by the White man for the benefit of the White man, to be administered by White men, in such manner as they should determine.
It is exceedingly important that we have men at the beginning capable of thinking as White men, and not those who have been systematically oppressed.
But they cried out, that no such thing had been done by him, but that he had presided over the nation after a holy and righteous manner.
A very curious tradition respecting the first appearance of white men on the coast was related some years ago to Mr. Duncan by an old chief:-- "A large canoe of Indians were busy catching halibut in one of these channels.
A deputation also arrived from the Fort Simpson Indians to consult with the Metlakahtla Indians how to meet the pending difficulties with the White men as regards the Indian rights as to the salmon-fisheries.
Ebery one take slabes and send dem down de river, and sell to white men dere to carry ober sea.
Colored men had mortgages on white men's crops, and vice versa, and colored people not only owned land, but in several cases were renting land to white men.
If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks.
At a county fair in the South, not long ago, I saw a Negro awarded the first prize, by a jury of white men, over white competitors, for the production of the best specimen of Indian corn.
But not a sound had been uttered during the protracted hours, save an occasional grunt of satisfaction on the part of the Indians, or when we white men exchanged a sentence.
There were several graves on its summit when I first saw Pawnee Rock; but whether they contained the bones of savages or those of white men, I do not know.
They had lost their way while hunting, and were anxious to see the ships of white men.
He had never seen or heard of a cairn erected by white men along the coast on this side of Simpson Strait, and had never heard of any other traces of white men here.
About this time he saw the tracks of white men on the main-land.
The Chippewa term for this animal is Wa-bos, usually pronounced by white men Wa-poos.
This answer is a specimen of Indian caution and suspicion of white men.
Our criminal Indian code, which is defective, applies only to the murder of white menkilled in the Indian country.
The traders, who called him a bad man, represent the Indians as social when removed from the face of white men, and capable of noble and generous acts.
I replied, that I had supposed him to be some great chief or warrior, who had seen plenty of white men before, and did not think it worth while to notice a poor sailor.
When dawn made it possible to do so effectively, the squaws began to whip out the trail of the six renegade Indians, and the chance footprints of those who bad gone ahead to leave the false trail for the white men to follow.
You are curtailing the rights, not only of colored people, but of white men as well.
The whole machinery of the state is in the hands of white men, elected partly by our votes.
For he knew Carteret's unrelenting hostility to anything that savored of recognition of the negro as the equal of white men.
He's not one of your new negroes, who think themselves as good as white men, and want to run the government.
Drawing himself erect and stretching forth his hands he invoked anathema on his enemies in these words: "A curse upon you, white men!
The work of its extermination seems, indeed, to have begun with the possession of the coast by white men, and the fate of the aborigines is easily read.
The Indians have a legend of the arrival of white men in a "bird," undoubtedly a ship, from which issued thunder and lightning.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "white men" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
