Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on RecordSwormstedt & Poe, 1856 - 416 sider |
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... second day a heavy rain fell , which made the ground wet and muddy , soaked the blanket bed- ding , and rendered camping at night any thing but pleasant . * For about a fortnight the caravan proceeded without any 16 FIRESIDE READING .
... second day a heavy rain fell , which made the ground wet and muddy , soaked the blanket bed- ding , and rendered camping at night any thing but pleasant . * For about a fortnight the caravan proceeded without any 16 FIRESIDE READING .
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... ground . It was in the depth of winter ; the ground was covered with snow , and the river was frozen solid . While I was thinking of nothing but my dinner , which I was then about . preparing , four or five of the cowards jumped on me ...
... ground . It was in the depth of winter ; the ground was covered with snow , and the river was frozen solid . While I was thinking of nothing but my dinner , which I was then about . preparing , four or five of the cowards jumped on me ...
Side 26
... ground with his feet . At this moment a shot was fired . The victim trembled like an aspen leaf , and fell on his knees , but recovering himself in an in- stant , started again as fast as before . Again the determined hunters dashed ...
... ground with his feet . At this moment a shot was fired . The victim trembled like an aspen leaf , and fell on his knees , but recovering himself in an in- stant , started again as fast as before . Again the determined hunters dashed ...
Side 28
... ground and throwing the earth over their heads ; in a few moments they started in a slow , clumsy canter , but as the hunters neared them they quickened their pace to an astonishingly - rapid gallop , and in a few minutes were entirely ...
... ground and throwing the earth over their heads ; in a few moments they started in a slow , clumsy canter , but as the hunters neared them they quickened their pace to an astonishingly - rapid gallop , and in a few minutes were entirely ...
Side 29
... ground , with the under surface uppermost , and the fleeces , or masses of meat taken from along the back , were laid upon them . These fleeces , from a large animal , will weigh perhaps a hundred pounds each , and comprise the whole of ...
... ground , with the under surface uppermost , and the fleeces , or masses of meat taken from along the back , were laid upon them . These fleeces , from a large animal , will weigh perhaps a hundred pounds each , and comprise the whole of ...
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Side 380 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Side 381 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, • Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Side 380 - Solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. I am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Side 36 - These people, with their obstreperous mirth, their whooping and howling, and quarrelling, added to the mounted Indians, who are constantly dashing into and through our camp, yelling like fiends, the barking and baying of savage wolf-dogs, and the incessant cracking of rifles and carbines, render our camp a perfect bedlam.
Side 381 - And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there ; But alas ! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair. But the sea-fowl is gone to her nest, The beast is laid down in his lair, Even here is a season of rest, And I to my cabin repair.
Side 380 - Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon man, Oh, had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again ! My sorrows I then might assuage In the ways of religion and truth, Might learn from the wisdom of age, And be cheer'd by the sallies of youth.
Side 36 - I am confined closely to the tent with illness, and am compelled all day to listen to the hiccoughing jargon of drunken traders, and the swearing and screaming of our own men, who are scarcely less savage than the rest, being heated by the detestable liquor which circulates freely among them. It is very much to be regretted that at times like the present there should be a positive necessity to allow the men as much rum as they can drink ; but this course has been sanctioned and practised by all the...
Side 77 - We were surrounded by ice piled up in mountains, crevices presenting themselves at every step, and masses half sunk into some deep gulf; the remainder, raised above us, seemed to put insurmountable barriers to our proceeding: yet some part was found where steps could be cut with the hatchet ; and we passed over these bridges, often grasping the ice with one hand, while the other, bearing the pole, balanced the body, hanging over some abyss, into which the eye penetrated, and searched in vain for...
Side 231 - At dawn of day some of my people seemed half dead: our appearances were horrible, and I could look no way but I caught the eye of someone in distress. Extreme hunger was now too evident, but no one suffered from thirst, nor had we much inclination to drink, that desire perhaps being satisfied through the skin.
Side 235 - By the help of a small magnifying glass, a fire was made; and among the things that had been thrown into the boat was a tinderbox and a piece of brimstone, so that in future they had the ready means of making a fire. One of the men, too, had been so provident as to bring away with him...