Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains: Under the Direction of the A.B.C.F.M. Performed in the Years 1835,'36, and '37 ; Containing a Description of the Geography, Geology, Climate, and Productions ; and the Number, Manners, and Customs of the Natives with a Map of Oregon TerritoryAuthor., 1838 - 371 |
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... Vancouver and the labors of other explorers for much that I have delineated of the North - West coast of the Pacific ocean , and the Islands . The accompanying engraving of the basaltic formation on the Columbia river , was taken for ...
... Vancouver and the labors of other explorers for much that I have delineated of the North - West coast of the Pacific ocean , and the Islands . The accompanying engraving of the basaltic formation on the Columbia river , was taken for ...
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... Vancouver ; departure for Fort George and mouth of the Columbia ; mouths of the Multnomah ; Wappatoo island ; May Dacre ; coffin rock ; Cowalitz river ; Indian friend- ship ; Pacific ocean ; Gray's bay ; Astoria . 140 CHAPTER X ...
... Vancouver ; departure for Fort George and mouth of the Columbia ; mouths of the Multnomah ; Wappatoo island ; May Dacre ; coffin rock ; Cowalitz river ; Indian friend- ship ; Pacific ocean ; Gray's bay ; Astoria . 140 CHAPTER X ...
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... Vancouver . 158 CHAPTER XII . Services on the sabbath ; obstacles to the gospel ; discouraging case ; manner of spending time ; description of Vancouver ; fur and farm- ing establishment ; garden productions ; lumber ; commerce ...
... Vancouver . 158 CHAPTER XII . Services on the sabbath ; obstacles to the gospel ; discouraging case ; manner of spending time ; description of Vancouver ; fur and farm- ing establishment ; garden productions ; lumber ; commerce ...
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... Vancouver ; swift passage down the river ; run the Falls ; Cas- cades ; dangerous eddy ; arrive at Vancouver ; steam - boat excur- sion . CHAPTER XXIV . General remarks ; Meteorological table ; Vocabulary of the Nez Per- ce , Chenook ...
... Vancouver ; swift passage down the river ; run the Falls ; Cas- cades ; dangerous eddy ; arrive at Vancouver ; steam - boat excur- sion . CHAPTER XXIV . General remarks ; Meteorological table ; Vocabulary of the Nez Per- ce , Chenook ...
Strona 95
... Vancouver before winter . We providentially learned that a large band of Nez Perces was a few miles below us , and would come to us to - morrow . The Indians had become almost destitute of provisions , but to - day they killed a few ...
... Vancouver before winter . We providentially learned that a large band of Nez Perces was a few miles below us , and would come to us to - morrow . The Indians had become almost destitute of provisions , but to - day they killed a few ...
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Strona 159 - Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church...
Strona 79 - A hunter, who goes technically by the name of the great bully of the mountains, mounted his horse with a loaded rifle, and challenged any Frenchman, American, Spaniard, or Dutchman, to fight him in single combat. Kit Carson, an American, told him if he wished to die, he would accept the challenge.
Strona 76 - It was a difficult operation, because the arrow was hooked at the point by striking a large bone, and a cartilaginous substance had grown around it. The Doctor pursued the operation with great self-possession and perseverance; and his patient manifested equal firmness. The Indians looked on meanwhile, with countenances indicating wonder, and in their own peculiar manner expressed great astonishment when it was extracted.
Strona ii - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.
Strona 97 - ... if they could not take the poles of some of their lodges and construct a shade. They thought they could ; and without any other directions went and made preparation, and about eleven o'clock came and said they were ready for worship. I found them all assembled, men, women, and children, be.
Strona 223 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Strona 216 - ... Every house is builded by some man, but he that built all things is God." If we lose sight of this great truth, and do not keep it in view, as a landmark in our investigations, but look to nature as our only guide and instructor, at work in her great laboratory, the earth, to teach, us precisely how the earth is formed, we shall wander into mazes from which we shall not be able to extricate ourselves. These remarks are not designed to detract from the science of geology ; for it is undoubtedly...
Strona 310 - Columbia, awakened a train of prospective reflections upon the probable changes which would take place in these remote regions, in a very few years. It was wholly an unthought of thing when I first contemplated this enterprise, that I should find here this forerunner of commerce and business. The...
Strona 92 - Small children, not more than three years old, are mounted alone, and generally upon colts. They are lashed upon the saddle to keep them from falling, and especially when they go asleep, which they often do when they become fatigued. Then they recline upon the...
Strona 72 - This valley was not discovered until some years since. Mr. Hunt and his party, more than twenty years ago, went near it but did not find it, though in search of some favorable passage. It varies in width from five to twenty miles ; and following its course, the distance through the mountains is about eighty miles, or four days