Boz in the Bush Amid a Night of Indian Attack
A first person tale recounts a brutal prairie ambush and siege by the Blackfeet tribe. Willis and Bryan, two writers, endure gunfire, torture, and a death march as their fort is overrun, a war-post ritual begins, and the survivors are doomed to be offered as captives in a savage village.
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Hallow
Willis
Boz
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Melanie
Mother Earth
Mysel
Mullins Bryan
Mullins
Brian
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Hecate
Coon
Great Bull Turtle
New York
Congress
Byron
Bosh
Cale
Smack- Thack Girnigo
Crooked River
Calipashawash
Nightingale
Broadway
Hoboken
Irvan
James
Yan
Passing Song of Mullins Bryan
A fragmentary verse expressing defiance toward an opponent named Mullins Bryan. The speaker references tomahawks and boasts of American lineage, mentioning a father from Boston and an uncle named Judge Lynch. The tone is confrontational with crude racial imagery and insults.
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Mullins Bryan
Tess
Boston
Judge Lynch
Escape from Burning Village Ends in Orphan’s Pledge
An excerpt follows a dramatic scene where a captive narrator survives a ritual sacrifice as an orphan girl intervenes. The tribe spares him, appoints him chief Masterumfri, and he enjoys a celebratory meal and lodging. The text then transitions to a notice about Madam D Anistay’s diary extracts and portrayal of royal domestic life.
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Bryan
Byron
Calipsshawash
D’anistay
Evelina
Cecilia
London
Henry Colburn
George
The Attempt on the King's Life
Madame La Fite and Miss Goldsworthy relay news of an assassination attempt on the king at St James's. He survived a knife thrust as he accepted a petition, then calmly continued his duties with family watching in fear and grief.
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Elizabeth
Miss Goldsworthy
Windsor
Charlotte Finch
Duchess of
Ancaster
Charlotte Bertie
Tam
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St. James's
House OF Lords
Dronday
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Scotland
Queen's Prisons
House OF Commons
Hume
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Wallace
Thornely
Paktneron
Ipswich
R. Wason
G. Rennie
Borough of
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H. Fisk
Elizabeth Anne Cullen
Obadiah Lucas
Her Majesty's
Newgate
W. J. Blake
Newport
Royal Court Feasts and Sudden Nighttime Odyssey at Oxford
A Burney diary recounts a royal collation at Christ Church Oxford, where nobles and scholars arranged tea and snacks behind a semicircle barrier. A terrifying pursuit to reach the queen’s rooms ends with aid from a compassionate stranger and a dramatic late-night homeward struggle through startled guards.
Court Etiquette And Backward-Walking At Oxford Tours
In a lively account a narrator describes royal observations in college rooms where the queen and princesses were seated apart from poorer guests. The narrator admires Miss Planta’s fatigue and a dramatic backward march by Lady Charlotte before slipping away toward portraits and wainscoting.
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Mr. Jervis
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Hughes's
Henry VIII
Holbein
Lady Charlotte
Cardinal Olsey
Mr. F
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