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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 16
On the 28th of April , at ten o'clock in the morning , all things being prepared , the
caravan , consisting of seventy men ... made the ground wet and muddy , soaked
the blanket bedding , and rendered camping at night any thing but pleasant .
On the 28th of April , at ten o'clock in the morning , all things being prepared , the
caravan , consisting of seventy men ... made the ground wet and muddy , soaked
the blanket bedding , and rendered camping at night any thing but pleasant .
Side 23
To be sure they did , and my blankets , and every thing I had , except my clothes .
” how did you subsist till you reached the settlements ? You had a long journey
before you . ” “ Why , set to trappin ' prairie squirrels with little nooses made out of
...
To be sure they did , and my blankets , and every thing I had , except my clothes .
” how did you subsist till you reached the settlements ? You had a long journey
before you . ” “ Why , set to trappin ' prairie squirrels with little nooses made out of
...
Side 32
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 the
...
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 the
...
Side 35
I would gladly have relinquished every thing the garment held , if I could but have
recovered the book ; and although I returned to the river , and searched
assiduously till night , and offered large rewards to the men , it could not be found
.
I would gladly have relinquished every thing the garment held , if I could but have
recovered the book ; and although I returned to the river , and searched
assiduously till night , and offered large rewards to the men , it could not be found
.
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