Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on RecordDavis Wasgatt Clark Swormstedt & Poe, 1856 - 416 sider |
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... shore of the vast North American continent . Food , however , was becoming scarce , the stock of dried buffalo meat being nearly ex- hausted ; and therefore , while the majority of the party should remain to build a fort on the banks of ...
... shore of the vast North American continent . Food , however , was becoming scarce , the stock of dried buffalo meat being nearly ex- hausted ; and therefore , while the majority of the party should remain to build a fort on the banks of ...
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... shore , which we did without sustaining any damage ; the boats were hauled up high and dry , and we concluded to remain in our quarters till next day , or till there was a cessation of the wind . In about an hour it lulled a little ...
... shore , which we did without sustaining any damage ; the boats were hauled up high and dry , and we concluded to remain in our quarters till next day , or till there was a cessation of the wind . In about an hour it lulled a little ...
Side 68
... shore as soon as possible . Our Indian , however , still sat with his eyes covered , the most abject and contemptible - looking thing I ever saw . We took him by the shoulders , and threatened to throw him overboard if he did not ...
... shore as soon as possible . Our Indian , however , still sat with his eyes covered , the most abject and contemptible - looking thing I ever saw . We took him by the shoulders , and threatened to throw him overboard if he did not ...
Side 69
... shore . " For two or three days they were tossed about on the river , now attempting to make way , now forced to land again , and always drenched to the skin . The missionaries and their party , too , who had set out in the barge from ...
... shore . " For two or three days they were tossed about on the river , now attempting to make way , now forced to land again , and always drenched to the skin . The missionaries and their party , too , who had set out in the barge from ...
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... first human beings who had ever set foot on it . Neither the vegetable nor the animal world had been disturbed . For about two hundred yards from the shore , the ground was covered so thickly with 92 NARRATIVE OF SCENES AT NORFOLK ISLAND.
... first human beings who had ever set foot on it . Neither the vegetable nor the animal world had been disturbed . For about two hundred yards from the shore , the ground was covered so thickly with 92 NARRATIVE OF SCENES AT NORFOLK ISLAND.
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