 | 2002 - 336 Seiten
...an important North American tribe. In describing his collection, he borrowed from Sir Walter Scott's "Lay of the Last Minstrel": "I know not how the truth may be / I tell the tale as 'twas told to me."'2 Mooney had recorded hundreds of myths from his Cherokee informants. Through repetition, as the... | |
 | Thomas Worthington King - 2003 - 318 Seiten
...creatures when the exhibition is enjoyed at such a heavy cost. I give this as I heard it— I cannot tell how the truth may be, I tell the tale, as 'twas told to me— For the sake of the beautiful Limeñas I would not wish to believe it. Yet I know their extreme passion... | |
 | 1909 - 598 Seiten
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 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - 1900 - 732 Seiten
...obtained directly from the Indians, and in nearly every case has been verified from several sources. "I know not how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me." First and chief in the list of story tellers comes A'yim'ini, " Swimmer," from whom nearly three-fourths... | |
 | Walter Augustus Clark - 1900 - 256 Seiten
...gastric disturbance that he vomited, as a colored brother once put it, from Genesis to Revelations. "I know not how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me." Regretting my inability, for reasons already stated, to answer this inquiry more definitely, I can... | |
 | 1880 - 470 Seiten
...Hence the corruption ' Ghilzye.' Such are some of their traditions, regarding which ' I cannot say how the truth may be ; I tell the tale as 'twas told to me.' From the Ghilzye tribe come many of the soldier-traders, sometimes called ' Povindas' or ' Lohanis.'... | |
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I know not how the truth may be, I tell the tale as 'twas told to me. 
