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Side 10
Being desirous of increasing the existing stock of knowledge in the departments
of science to which they were respectively attached , these gentlemen agreed to
accompany a body of traders , commanded by a Captain Wyeth , to the Columbia
...
Being desirous of increasing the existing stock of knowledge in the departments
of science to which they were respectively attached , these gentlemen agreed to
accompany a body of traders , commanded by a Captain Wyeth , to the Columbia
...
Side 13
... pig - sty would have been a more appropriate name . Every thing and every
body were dirty , disobliging , and disagreeable ; and , after staying one night ,
the travelers refusing the landlord's invitation to liquorise with him , departed
without ...
... pig - sty would have been a more appropriate name . Every thing and every
body were dirty , disobliging , and disagreeable ; and , after staying one night ,
the travelers refusing the landlord's invitation to liquorise with him , departed
without ...
Side 26
... and shot two balls through his body with the most perfect coolness and
precision . During the racethe whole of which occurred in full view of the party —
the men seemed wild with the excitement which it occasioned ; and when the
animal 26 ...
... and shot two balls through his body with the most perfect coolness and
precision . During the racethe whole of which occurred in full view of the party —
the men seemed wild with the excitement which it occasioned ; and when the
animal 26 ...
Side 34
The man , who was a young hunter , happened to be about a mile behind the
main body , either from the indolence of his horse or his own carelessness ; but
as he ap- ' proached the party in his desperate flight , and his pitiable cries
reached ...
The man , who was a young hunter , happened to be about a mile behind the
main body , either from the indolence of his horse or his own carelessness ; but
as he ap- ' proached the party in his desperate flight , and his pitiable cries
reached ...
Side 40
... and upon examining his body , he was found completely riddled ; there did not
appear to be four inches of his shaggy person , from the hips upward , that had
not received a ball ; there must have been at least thirty 40 FIRESIDE READING .
... and upon examining his body , he was found completely riddled ; there did not
appear to be four inches of his shaggy person , from the hips upward , that had
not received a ball ; there must have been at least thirty 40 FIRESIDE READING .
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