History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clarke: To the Sources of the Missouri ... Performed During the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, by Order of the Government of the United States, Volume 1Harper, 1847 |
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History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and ..., Volume 1 Meriwether Lewis Volledige weergave - 1847 |
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Pagina 199 - Towards evening the men in. the hindmost canoes discovered a large brown bear lying in the open grounds, about three hundred paces from the river: six of them, all good hunters, immediately went to attack him, and concealing themselves by a small eminence, came unperceived within forty paces of him : four of the hunters...
Pagina xxxix - The conventional lines which bound this re» gion are, first, the southern boundary between the territories belonging to the United States and those of Spain, as agreed upon in the treaty made between the two powers on the 22d of February, 1819. This was to be a line drawn from the source of the River Arkansas, north or south, as the case might be, to the forty-second parallel of latitude, and thence along that parallel westward to the Pacific ; his Catholic majesty ceding to the United States all...
Pagina 312 - Captain Lewis slackened his pace, and followed at a sufficient distance to observe them. When they reached the place where Drewyer had thrown out the intestines, they all dismounted in confusion and ran tumbling over each other like famished dogs : each tore away whatever part he could and instantly began to eat it; some had the liver, some the kidneys, in short no part on which we are accustomed to look with disgust escaped them...
Pagina 312 - It was indeed impossible to see these wretches ravenously feeding on the filth of animals, and the blood streaming from their mouths, without deploring how nearly the condition of savages approaches that of the brute creation ; yet though suffering with hunger they did not attempt, as...
Pagina 226 - ... secured by the mist rising from the falls. This solitary bird could not escape the observation of the Indians who made the eagle's nest a part of their description of the falls, which now proves to be correct in almost every particular, except that they did not do justice to their height.
Pagina 319 - Sacajawea was sent for: she came into the tent, sat down, and %vas beginning to interpret, when in the person of Cameahwait she recognised her brother. She instantly jumped up, and ran and embraced him, throwing over him her blanket, and weeping profusely : the chief was himself moved, though not in the same degree.
Pagina 166 - Borgne walked there and found her sitting near the fire: without noticing his wife, he began to smoke with the father; when they were joined by the old men of the village, who knowing his temper had followed in hopes of appeasing him. He continued to smoke quietly with them, till rising to return...
Pagina 318 - Sacajawea, who was with her husband one hundred yards ahead, begin to dance and show every mark of the most extravagant joy. turning round him and pointing to several Indians, whom he now saw advancing on horseback, sucking her fingers at the same time to indicate that they were of her native tribe.
Pagina xviii - ... together with my own observations, I have learned that the four most capital rivers on the continent of North America — viz., the St. Lawrence, the Mississippi, the River Bourbon, and the Oregon, or River of the West, (as I hinted in my introduction) — have their sources in the same neighborhood.
Pagina 55 - Indians, and are said to possess fine military capacities ; but, residing as they do in villages, and having made considerable advance in agriculture, they seem less addicted to war than their northern neighbours, to whom the use of rifles gives a great su