Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record |
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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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able afterward allowed appeared approach arrived attempt became boat body brought called Captain cause close commanded companions conduct continued course covered crew danger death direction distance effect entered escape expected eyes feelings feet felt fire five formed four gave give ground half hands head heard hope horses hundred immediately Indians island Italy kind land least leave length less lived looked means miles mind minutes months morning natives never night officers once party passed person poor present prison raft reached received remained returned river sail sailors saved says scarcely seemed seen seized Selkirk sent served ship shore short side sight situation soon suffered taken thing thought till tion took travelers turned vessel whole wind young
Bibliografiske oplysninger
| Titel | Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record Fireside reading |
| Redaktør | Davis Wasgatt Clark |
| Udgiver | A. Poe & L. Hitchcock, 1864 |
| Oprindeligt fra | University of Chicago |
| Digitaliseret | 25. jan 2016 |
| Længde | 416 sider |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |