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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... authentic in their essential features , if not in their minute details . Most of them are striking illustrations of the fact that " truth is stranger than fiction . ” 5 Contents . PAGE . 1. EXCURSION TO OREGON IN 1834.
... authentic in their essential features , if not in their minute details . Most of them are striking illustrations of the fact that " truth is stranger than fiction . ” 5 Contents . PAGE . 1. EXCURSION TO OREGON IN 1834.
Side 25
... minutes north , and the computed distance from the Mis- souri settlements about three hundred and sixty miles . The day following , the party saw several small herds of buffalo on their side of the river . EXCURSION TO OREGON . 25.
... minutes north , and the computed distance from the Mis- souri settlements about three hundred and sixty miles . The day following , the party saw several small herds of buffalo on their side of the river . EXCURSION TO OREGON . 25.
Side 28
... 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 beyond the reach of their guns , 28 FIRESIDE READING .
... 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 beyond the reach of their guns , 28 FIRESIDE READING .
Side 29
Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record Davis Wasgatt Clark. minutes were entirely beyond the reach of their guns , but were still so near that their enormous horns , and long , shaggy beards were very dis- tinctly seen ...
Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record Davis Wasgatt Clark. minutes were entirely beyond the reach of their guns , but were still so near that their enormous horns , and long , shaggy beards were very dis- tinctly seen ...
Side 46
... minutes more he would be completely at their mercy , when he hit upon an expedient as sin- gular as it was bold and courageous . Drawing his long scalping - knife from the sheath at his side , he plunged the keen weapon through his ...
... minutes more he would be completely at their mercy , when he hit upon an expedient as sin- gular as it was bold and courageous . Drawing his long scalping - knife from the sheath at his side , he plunged the keen weapon through his ...
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adventures afterward Alexander Selkirk allowed appeared arrived attempt Auldjo became Blackfeet boat bread brig brought buffalo called Captain Cinque Ports coast commanded companions crew Dampier danger death deck distance door endeavored escape father feet felt fire frigate gave governor grizzly bear hands heard hight hope horses Indians island Italy jailer Juan Fernandez land Lavalette length looked Maroncelli Medusa ment Milan miles mind Mont Blanc morning mountains mutineers natives never night Norfolk Island o'clock officers party passed Pellico person pinnace Pitcairn's Island poor prison provisions raft reached received remained returned river rope sail sailors says scarcely schooner secondini seemed seized Selkirk Senegal sent ship shore side sight Silvio Pellico situation soon Stradling suffered thing thought tion Tofoa took Townsend travelers Tude vessel voyage whole William Funnel wind wine wounded yawl