The Life of John Ledyard, the American Traveller: Comprising Selections from His Journals and CorrespondenceHilliard and Brown, 1829 - 310 pagina's |
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Pagina ii - Brown, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, viz. District Clerk's Office.
Pagina 322 - yet capable of strong endurance; adventurous beyond the conception of ordinary men, yet wary and considerate, and attentive to all precautions, he appeared to be formed by Nature for achievements of hardihood and peril." His letters afford convincing proofs of his kind and amiable disposition, gratitude
Pagina 276 - declare my opinion to be, without the least scruple, and with the most absolute conviction, that the Indians on the one and on the other are the same people. As to the origin and history of the great Tartar Nation, little has been essayed ; very little is known even of the extent of their country.
Pagina 86 - lying in a cove behind the village, and a hut near her, containing her sails, cordage, and other sea equipage, and one old iron three pounder. It is natural to an ingenuous mind, when it enters a town, a house, or ship, that has been rendered famous by any particular
Pagina 283 - anticipated in the remarks already made on the conduct of the Commandant at Yakutsk. From all the circumstances, which have come to my knowledge in the course of this investigation, I am convinced, that a plan was concerted at Irkutsk to send him back, very soon after his arrival in that place. Irkutsk was the residence
Pagina 87 - event, to feel the full force of that pleasure, which results from gratifying a noble curiosity. I was no sooner informed, that this sloop was the same in which the famous Bering had performed those discoveries, which did him so much honor, and his
Pagina 181 - for rambling, and who is still remembered in the United States, as well as in many other parts of the world, by the name of the Walking Stewart. " Non mihi fama, sed hospitalitatis et gratitudinis
Pagina 278 - cause of his arrest, as will shortly be made manifest. Ledyard again writes, " I am now two hundred and twenty versts from Moscow, on the road to Poland. Thank Heaven, petticoats appear, and the glimmerings of other features. Women are the sure ^harbingers of an alteration in manners, in approaching a country where their influence is
Pagina 238 - his virtues. He is a lover of peace. No lawyer here, perplexing natural rights of property. No wanton Helen, displaying fatal charms. No priest with his outrageous zeal has ever disturbed the peace. Never, I believe, did a Tartar speak ill of the Deity, or envy his fellow creatures. He is contented to be what he is.
Pagina 201 - and other Tartars, and seems to be of great antiquity. It appears from the number of graves, that many thousands must have fallen on these plains, for the people have continued to dig for such treasure many years, and still find it unexhausted. They are sometimes, indeed, interrupted and robbed of all their booty by parties of the