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Side 40
... round the citadel and through the town before they could fairly enter on the chase . The sun , too , was just setting , and darkness would soon con- ceal their track . They had not gone more than a hundred yards ere the alarm - guns ...
... round the citadel and through the town before they could fairly enter on the chase . The sun , too , was just setting , and darkness would soon con- ceal their track . They had not gone more than a hundred yards ere the alarm - guns ...
Side 43
... round it , pretending it was fast in the snow , and they called out for help . Well aware that this was a stratagem to entrap them , Trenck and his companion went about thirty yards out of the road , and replied that they could not ...
... round it , pretending it was fast in the snow , and they called out for help . Well aware that this was a stratagem to entrap them , Trenck and his companion went about thirty yards out of the road , and replied that they could not ...
Side 50
... round my naked body , to which hung a chain fixed into an iron bar as thick as a man's arm . This bar was two feet in length , and at each end of it was a handcuff . The iron collar round my neck was not added till the year 1756. No ...
... round my naked body , to which hung a chain fixed into an iron bar as thick as a man's arm . This bar was two feet in length , and at each end of it was a handcuff . The iron collar round my neck was not added till the year 1756. No ...
Side 52
... round my body by a hook , one end of which was not inserted in the rim ; therefore , by setting my foot against the wall , this I took , doubled , twisted , and wrenched , till at length , - nature having bestowed on me great strength ...
... round my body by a hook , one end of which was not inserted in the rim ; therefore , by setting my foot against the wall , this I took , doubled , twisted , and wrenched , till at length , - nature having bestowed on me great strength ...
Side 53
... round , but it opened outwards ; there was therefore no other means left but to cut the whole door away above the bar . In- cessant and incredible labour made this possible , though it was the more difficult , as every - peatedly ...
... round , but it opened outwards ; there was therefore no other means left but to cut the whole door away above the bar . In- cessant and incredible labour made this possible , though it was the more difficult , as every - peatedly ...
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allowed appeared arms arrived Bastile Bay of Honduras began Bicêtre boat bread brought Cadotte canoe captain captive carried Casanova Charenton Chippeways clothes companions danger death discovered distance door dungeon enemy English escape favour fear feet fell fire fore four gave guard hands head heard hole hope Indians island jailor killed Klosterbergen knew labour lake land Latude Lavalette leagues length lion looked ment Mezières miles miserable Montagnac morning muskets never night Nova Zembla o'clock obliged officer ourselves passed piece prisoner raft reached remained returned river Roatan round sail savages scarcely seized sent sentinel shallop ship shore side Sir Eyre Coote Sir William Johnson sleep snake soon suffered thought tion told took trees Trenck turnkey venison Verdun vessel voyage Wawatam weather wigwam wind wood wounded yards
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Side 268 - At length, disappointed in the hope of seeing resistance made to the enemy, and sensible, of course, that no effort of my own unassisted arm could avail against four hundred Indians, I thought only of seeking shelter. Amid the slaughter which was raging I observed many of the Canadian inhabitants of the fort calmly looking on, neither opposing the Indians, nor suffering injury; and from this circumstance I conceived a hope of finding security in their houses.
Side 345 - ... betake themselves when pursued by man, or after they have committed their depredations on the farms of the surrounding district. I have crossed the path of the storm, at a distance of a hundred miles from the spot where I witnessed its fury, and again, four hundred miles farther off, in the state of Ohio. Lastly, I observed traces of its ravages on the summits of the mountains connected with the great pine forest of Pennsylvania, three hundred miles beyond the place last mentioned. In all these...
Side 345 - ... scarcely elapsed, when the whole forest before me was in fearful motion. Here and there, where one tree pressed against another, a creaking noise was produced, similar to that occasioned by the violent gusts which sometimes sweep over the country. Turning instinctively towards the direction from which the wind blew...
Side 182 - Notwithstanding the roughness with which I was treated, the remembrance of past kindnesses produced some signs of remorse in Christian. When they were forcing me out of the ship, I asked him if this treatment was a proper return for the many instances he had received of my friendship ? he appeared disturbed at my question, and answered, with much emotion, " That, Captain Bligh, that is the thing ; — I am in hell...
Side 419 - Mungo Park's Life and Travels. With a Supplementary Chapter, detailing the results of recent Discovery in Africa.
Side 23 - To this petition the king answered, that on this, and all other occasions, he would do what he thought most consistent with the dignity of his crown and the safety of his people.
Side 26 - ... really present ; and answered my own questions in my lord's voice, as nearly as I could imitate it. I walked up and down as if we were conversing together, till I thought they had time enough thoroughly to clear themselves of the guards. I then thought proper to make off also. I opened the door, and stood half in it, that those in the outward chamber might hear what I said ; but held it so close that they could not look in. I bid my lord a formal farewell for that night...
Side 269 - ... the corner in which I was, must have contributed. In a word, after taking several turns in the room, during which they told M. Langlade how many they had killed, and how many scalps they had taken, they returned down stairs, and I, with sensations not to be expressed, heard the door, which was the barrier between me and my fate, locked for the second time.
Side 374 - The people now dragged us above forty yards on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked how I managed to keep my seat, I would answer, I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-hounds.
Side 407 - At one moment, the dogs perceiving his eye thus engaged, had advanced close to his feet, and seemed as if they would actually seize hold of him ; but they paid dearly for their imprudence, for without discomposing the majestic and steady attitude in which he stood fixed, he merely moved his paw, and at the next instant, I beheld two lying dead.