Betty B.
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871 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4d ago
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One was the lodge of the chief, the other was the temple or house of the sun.
They entered the former and found a single room forty feet square with
Where, in the dim light, for there was no opening but the door, the chief sat awaiting them on a sort of bedstead.
three of his wives at his side.
While sixty old men, wrapped in white cloaks woven of mulberry bark, formed his divan.
When he spoke his wives howled to do him honor.
and the assembled counselors listened with a reverence due to a potentate, for whom at his death a hundred victims were to be sacrificed.
He received the visitors graciously and joyfully accepted the gifts which Tanti laid before him.
This interview over, the Frenchmen repaired to the temple, wherein were kept a
The bones of the departed chiefs.
In construction it was much like the royal dwelling.
Over it were rude wooden figures representing three eagles turned toward the east.
A strong mud wall surrounded it, planted with stakes, on which were stuck the skulls of enemies sacrificed to the sun.
While before the door was a block of wood, on which lay a large shell surrounded with the braided hair of the victims.
The interior was rude as a barn, dimly lighted from the doorway and full of smoke.
There was a structure in the middle which Membray thinks was a kind of altar, and before it burned a perpetual fire fed with three logs laid end to end and watched by two old men devoted to this sacred office.
There was a mysterious recess too, which the strangers were forbidden to explore.
But which, as Tanti was told, contained the riches of the nation, consisting of pearls from the Gulf, and trinkets obtained probably through other tribes from the Spaniards and other Europeans.
On the next morning as they descended the river they saw a wooden canoe full of Indians, and Tonti gave chase.
He had nearly overtaken it when more than a hundred men appeared suddenly on the shore and
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