Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in North America: Including the United States, Canada, the Shores of the Polar Sea, and the Voyages in Search of a Northwest Passage; with Observations on Emigration, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1829 - America |
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... boats , and found clouds of arrows poured in upon them . They defended themselves with planks and boughs of trees , and , by their supe- rior skill in fighting , succeeded in repulsing the assail- ants . Thorwald , however , feeling ...
... boats , and found clouds of arrows poured in upon them . They defended themselves with planks and boughs of trees , and , by their supe- rior skill in fighting , succeeded in repulsing the assail- ants . Thorwald , however , feeling ...
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... boats can pass between them . Even far- ther south , at Kamtschatka , where the distance may be six or seven hundred miles , the Fox and Aleutian Islands form so continuous a chain , that the passage might be effected with the greatest ...
... boats can pass between them . Even far- ther south , at Kamtschatka , where the distance may be six or seven hundred miles , the Fox and Aleutian Islands form so continuous a chain , that the passage might be effected with the greatest ...
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... boat could not ap- proach it . In this emergency , a young sailor under- took to swim on shore , and open an intercourse with the natives . They crowded to receive him ; but just as he had arrived within a few yards of the land , his ...
... boat could not ap- proach it . In this emergency , a young sailor under- took to swim on shore , and open an intercourse with the natives . They crowded to receive him ; but just as he had arrived within a few yards of the land , his ...
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... boats , and found a country equally rich and beautiful , which they left with regret . The hills , to their anxious view , appeared to afford some metallic pro- mise . They now sailed fifty leagues eastward , along a coast , ( probably ...
... boats , and found a country equally rich and beautiful , which they left with regret . The hills , to their anxious view , appeared to afford some metallic pro- mise . They now sailed fifty leagues eastward , along a coast , ( probably ...
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... boat , at a little distance . At length the French took leave of this friendly people , and sailed a hundred and fifty leagues , along a coast running first to the east , and then to the north , which last direction marks that they had ...
... boat , at a little distance . At length the French took leave of this friendly people , and sailed a hundred and fifty leagues , along a coast running first to the east , and then to the north , which last direction marks that they had ...
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Page 195 - We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
Page 495 - 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, he took his wife by the hair, led her as far as the door, and with a single stroke of his tomahawk put her to death before her father's eyes: then turning fiercely upon the spectators, he said that if any...
Page 298 - ... us to confess what we did confess. And indeed that confession, that it is said we made, was no other than what was suggested to us by some gentlemen ; they telling us, that we were witches, and they knew it, and we knew it, and they knew that we knew it, which made us think that it was so...
Page 65 - ... after, I saw two, apparelled after the manner of Englishmen, in Westminster palace, which at that time I could not discern from Englishmen, till I was learned what they were ; but as for speech, I heard none of them utter one word.
Page 497 - ... seating himself on some rocks under the centre of the falls, enjoyed the sublime spectacle of this stupendous object which since the creation had been lavishing its magnificence upon the desert unknown to civilization.
Page 499 - The river, of one hundred and fifty yards in width, seems to have forced its channel down this solid mass, but so reluctantly has it given way that during the whole distance the water is very deep even at the edges, and for the first three miles there is not a spot except one of a few yards, in which a man could stand between the water and the towering perpendicular of the mountain : the...
Page 471 - We are seldom out of sight, as we travel on this grand track, towards the Ohio, of family groups, behind and before us. ... A small waggon (so light that you might almost carry it, yet strong enough to bear a good load of bedding, utensils and provisions, and a swarm of young citizens...
Page 230 - It is strange to see with what great feare and adoration, all these people doe obey this Powhatan. For at his feet they present whatsoever he commandeth, and at the least frowne of his brow, their greatest spirits will tremble with feare: and no marvell, for he is very terrible and tyrannous in punishing such as offend him.
Page 309 - And we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living sufferers as being then under the power of a strong and general delusion, utterly unacquainted with and not experienced in matters of that nature.
Page 495 - 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, he took his wife by the hair, led her as far as the door, and with a single stroke of his tomahawk put her to death before her father's eyes ; then turning fiercely upon the spectators, he said that...