Travel and Adventure: Comprising Some of the Most Striking Narratives on Record |
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Side 13
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 ...
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 ...
Side 16
On the 28th of April , at ten o'clock in the morning , all things being prepared , the caravan , consisting of ... which 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 ... which made the ground wet and muddy , soaked the blanket bedding , and rendered camping at night any thing but pleasant .
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“ To be sure they did , and my blankets , and every thing I had , except my clothes . ” “ But how did you subsist till you reached the settlements ? You had a long journey before you . ” “ Why , set to trappin ' prairie squirrels with ...
“ To be sure they did , and my blankets , and every thing I had , except my clothes . ” “ But how did you subsist till you reached the settlements ? You had a long journey before you . ” “ Why , set to trappin ' prairie squirrels with ...
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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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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 ...
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 ...
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