History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis & Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, Performed During the Years 1804-5-6, by Order of the Government of the United States. A Complete Reprint of the Biddle Ed. of 1814, to which All the Members of the Expedition Contributed, with an Account of the Louisiana Purchase, Τόμος 2A.S. Barnes, 1904 - 1208 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 177 - It was a hollow square of six or eight feet deep, formed iu the river bank by damming up with mud the other three sides, and covering the whole completely except an aperture about two feet wide at the top.
Σελίδα 74 - ... was himself moved, though not in the same degree. After some conversation between them she resumed her seat, and attempted to interpret for us, but her new situation seemed to overpower her, and she was frequently interrupted by her tears. After the council was finished, the unfortunate woman...
Σελίδα 236 - On entering we found in some of ihem four dead bodies, carefully wrapped in skins, tied with cords of grass and bark, lying on a mat in a direction east and west : the other vaults contained only bones, which were in some of them piled to the height of four feet : on the tops of the vaults, and on poles attached to them, hung brass kettles and frying-pans with holes in their bottoms, baskets, bowls, sea-shells, skins, pieces of cloth, hair, bags of trinkets and small bones, the offerings of friendship...
Σελίδα 336 - ... take better care of him than his friends on earth, leave him, without remorse, to perish when his little supply is exhausted. The same custom is said to prevail among the Minnetarees, Ahnahawas, and Ricaras, when they are attended by old men on their hunting excursions. Yet, in their villages, we saw no want of kindness to old men. On the contrary, probably because in villages the means of more abundant subsistence renders such cruelty unnecessary, the old people appeared to be treated with attention,...
Σελίδα 367 - Mutlomah river, and particularly one of them, called Shaboboah, have also a great number of mules, which the Indians prize more highly than horses. An elegant horse may be purchased of the natives for a few beads or other paltry trinkets, which, in the United States would not cost more than one or two dollars. The abundance and cheapness of horses, will be extremely advantageous to those who may hereafter attempt the fur trade to the East Indies, by the way of the Columbia river and the Pacific Ocean.
Σελίδα 82 - Platte is generally speaking very fine, and although the timber is scarce, there is still sufficient for the purposes of settlers. But beyond that river, although the soil is still rich, yet the almost total absence of timber, and particularly the want of good water, of which there is but a small quantity in the creeks, and even that brackish, oppose powerful obstacles to its settlement. The difficulty becomes still greater between the Muscleshell river and the falls, where besides the greater scarcity...
Σελίδα 56 - Captain Lewis returned from the river to his lodge, and on his way an Indian invited him into his bower, and gave him a small morsel of boiled antelope and a piece of fresh salmon roasted.
Σελίδα 48 - They followed a descent much steeper than that on the eastern side, and at the distance of three quarters of a mile reached a handsome, bold creek of cold, clear water running to the westward. They stopped to taste, for the first time, the waters of the Columbia...
Σελίδα 59 - In this way they were alternately pursued backwards and forwards, till at length, notwithstanding the skill of the hunters, they all escaped ; and the party, after running for two hours, returned without having caught any thing, and their horses foaming with sweat. This chase, the greater part of which was seen from the camp, formed a beautiful scene ; but to the hunters is exceedingly laborious, and so unproductive, even when they are able to worry the animal down, and shoot him, that forty or fifty...
Σελίδα 77 - It was therefore agreed that captain ('lark should set' off in the morning with eleven men, furnished, besides their arms, with tools for making canoes ; that he should take Chaboneau and his wife to the camp of the Shoshonees, where he was to leave them, in order to hasten the collection of horses; that he...