Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on RecordDavis Wasgatt Clark A. Poe & L. Hitchcock, 1864 - 416 sider |
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... four days they reached the small town of Independence , then the out- ermost Anglo - American post , and disembarking , they began to prepare for their long and ven- turesome journey . Mr. Townsend here intro- duces a description of the ...
... four days they reached the small town of Independence , then the out- ermost Anglo - American post , and disembarking , they began to prepare for their long and ven- turesome journey . Mr. Townsend here intro- duces a description of the ...
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... four or five of the cowards jumped on me , mastered my rifle , and held my arms fast , while they took from me my knife and tomahawk , my flint and steel , and all my am- munition . They then loosed me , and told me to be off . I begged ...
... four or five of the cowards jumped on me , mastered my rifle , and held my arms fast , while they took from me my knife and tomahawk , my flint and steel , and all my am- munition . They then loosed me , and told me to be off . I begged ...
Side 40
... four men was required to drag the ferocious brute from the water , 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 re ...
... four men was required to drag the ferocious brute from the water , 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 re ...
Side 41
... four months had now elapsed since they had com- menced their expedition , and there were various evidences that they were approaching its close . The Snake river , on the banks of which they were encamped , pours its waters directly ...
... four months had now elapsed since they had com- menced their expedition , and there were various evidences that they were approaching its close . The Snake river , on the banks of which they were encamped , pours its waters directly ...
Side 58
... four months old , trot into the camp , whinnying with great apparent pleas- ure , and dancing and curveting gayly among our sober and sedate band . I had no doubt that he had strayed from Indians , who were probably in the neighborhood ...
... four months old , trot into the camp , whinnying with great apparent pleas- ure , and dancing and curveting gayly among our sober and sedate band . I had no doubt that he had strayed from Indians , who were probably in the neighborhood ...
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