Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record |
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I was entering a land of strangers , and would be compelled hereafter to mingle with those who might look upon me with indifference , or treat me with neglect . ” The travelers , tired of their long journey on foot , waited at a small ...
I was entering a land of strangers , and would be compelled hereafter to mingle with those who might look upon me with indifference , or treat me with neglect . ” The travelers , tired of their long journey on foot , waited at a small ...
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They were now on a great sandy waste , forming a kind of upper table - land of North America - a region without a single green thing to vary and enliven the scene , and abounding in swarms of ferocious little black gnats , which assail ...
They were now on a great sandy waste , forming a kind of upper table - land of North America - a region without a single green thing to vary and enliven the scene , and abounding in swarms of ferocious little black gnats , which assail ...
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In this way he moved slowly and surely till he gained his former position , when , without further difficulty , he succeeded in reaching the more level land . Disappointed in finding a pass through the mountains at this point ...
In this way he moved slowly and surely till he gained his former position , when , without further difficulty , he succeeded in reaching the more level land . Disappointed in finding a pass through the mountains at this point ...
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In the course of their land journey down the banks of the river , they passed a village of the Walla Walla Indians , a tribe so remarkable for their honesty and moral deportment , that their conduct and habits amidst great privations ...
In the course of their land journey down the banks of the river , they passed a village of the Walla Walla Indians , a tribe so remarkable for their honesty and moral deportment , that their conduct and habits amidst great privations ...
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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 Walla Walla ...
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 Walla Walla ...
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