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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Side 32
... appearance greatly for the worse . 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 ...
... appearance greatly for the worse . 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 ...
Side 48
... appearance , he heaved a sigh of inanity , and remarked that I would have been as thin as he , if I had lived on old bear for two weeks , and short allowance at that . ' I found , in truth , that the whole camp had been subsisting ...
... appearance , he heaved a sigh of inanity , and remarked that I would have been as thin as he , if I had lived on old bear for two weeks , and short allowance at that . ' I found , in truth , that the whole camp had been subsisting ...
Side 52
... appearance of a herd of buffalo in the settle- ments . A sermon was perhaps never preached here before , but for myself I really enjoyed the whole scene : it possessed the charm of novelty , to say nothing of the salutary effect which I ...
... appearance of a herd of buffalo in the settle- ments . A sermon was perhaps never preached here before , but for myself I really enjoyed the whole scene : it possessed the charm of novelty , to say nothing of the salutary effect which I ...
Side 55
... appeared almost impossible to proceed with their horses . The farther they advanced the more their difficulties seemed to increase ; obstacles of various kinds impeded their prog- ress - fallen trees , their branches tangled and matted ...
... appeared almost impossible to proceed with their horses . The farther they advanced the more their difficulties seemed to increase ; obstacles of various kinds impeded their prog- ress - fallen trees , their branches tangled and matted ...
Side 63
... appearance , was of a piece with every thing else about them - filthy beyond description ; the very skins which covered the wigwams were black and stiff with rancid salmon fat , and the dresses - if dresses they may be called - of the ...
... appearance , was of a piece with every thing else about them - filthy beyond description ; the very skins which covered the wigwams were black and stiff with rancid salmon fat , and the dresses - if dresses they may be called - of the ...
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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