The Missouri River journal 1843 (continued) EpisodesScribner's Sons, 1897 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abundant afternoon Alexander Culbertson animal Antelopes Assiniboins Audubon ball bank Bear beautiful Beaver Bighorns birds Blackfeet boat breakfast brought Buffalo bull camp catfish caught Chardon covered Culbertson Deer distance dogs early eggs feet fire fish followed Fort Union four Grizzly Bear Gros Ventres ground Harris and Bell head heard hills horns horses hour hundred yards hunters hunting Indians killed land looked Mandans McKenzie meat miles Missouri morning mouth night o'clock Owen party passed poor prairie Prince of Wied procure Provost quadrupeds rain ravine reached returned river Rock Wren seen Sharp-tailed Grouse shoot shore shot side skin soon spot Sprague squaws Squires started stopped stream supper Swift Fox tail told took travelled trees village wagon walked weather whilst White Perch wild wind Wolf Wolves woods Yellowstone River young
Populaire passages
Pagina 189 - I reflect that all this grand portion of our Union, instead of being in a state of nature, is now more or less covered with villages, farms, and towns, where the din of hammers and machinery is constantly heard...
Pagina 289 - The heat had produced such a flush in the child's face, that when she turned towards either of us, our grief and perplexity were greatly increased. Ten miles, you know, are soon gone over on swift horses ; but notwithstanding this, when we reached the borders of the lake, covered with sweat and quite exhausted, our hearts failed us. The heat of the smoke was insufferable, and sheets of blazing fire flew over us in a manner beyond belief.
Pagina 220 - During upwards of twenty-five years, when my wanderings extended to all parts of our country, this was the only time at which my life was in danger from my fellow-creatures. Indeed, so little risk do travelers run in the United States, that no one born there ever dreams of any to be encountered on the road ; and I can only account for this occurrence by supposing that the inhabitants of the cabin were not Americans.
Pagina 290 - ... became hungry. Many wild beasts came plung'ing into the water beside us, and others swam across to our side and stood still. Although faint and weary, I managed to shoot a porcupine, and we all tasted its flesh. The night passed I cannot tell you how.
Pagina 289 - I thought, were frightened, for all above us was a red glare, mixed with clouds of smoke, rolling and sweeping away. Our bodies were cool enough, but our heads were scorching, and the child, who now seemed to understand the matter, cried so as nearly to break our hearts. " The day passed on, and we became hungry. Many wild beasts came plunging into the water beside us, and others swam across to our side and stood still.
Pagina 392 - The light breeze enables them to reach another harbor, a few miles distant ; one which, like the last, lies concealed from the ocean by some other rocky isle. Arrived there, they react the scene of yesterday, crushing every egg they can find. For a week each night is passed in drunkenness and brawls, until, having reached the last breeding place on the coast, they return, touch at every isle in succession, shoot as many birds as they need, collect the fresh eggs, and lay in a cargo.
Pagina 216 - The nighthawks were skimming over and around me, attracted by the buzzing wings of the beetles which form their food, and the distant howling of wolves, gave me some hope that I should soon arrive at the skirts of some woodland. I did so, and almost at the same instant a firelight...
Pagina 216 - The weather was fine, all around me was as fresh and blooming as if it had just issued from the bosom of nature. My knapsack, my gun, and my dog, were all I had for baggage and company. But, although well...
Pagina 188 - Virginians; when I see that no longer any Aborigines are to be found there, and that the vast herds of elks, deer and buffaloes which once pastured on these hills and in these valleys, making for themselves great roads to the several...
Pagina 232 - 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.