Gass's Journal of the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionA. C. McClurg & Company, 1904 - 298 Seiten |
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9 o'clock afternoon ahead baggage bank beautiful bluffs boat bottom branch brown bear buffaloe called Capt Captain Clarke Captain Lewis cloudy morning cloudy wet cold Columbia Columbia river continued our voyage cotton wood distance embarked early feet fish forenoon fort Mandan Friday gave gone halted handsome hills horses hunt hunters killed Indian lodges island Jefferson river killed a deer land last night latitude Lewis and Clark loaded meat miles and encamped Missouri Monday morning was cloudy morning was pleasant mountains mouth musquitoes natives noon north side North West Company party passed a creek Patrick Gass periogue plains pleasant morning prairie proceeded on early rain fell rapid remained returned Robert Frazier sand bars Saturday set out early shore showers of rain skins small canoes small river south side Sunday Thursday timber Tuesday valley weather became Wednesday white frost willow yards wide
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Seite iv - In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, « An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Seite iv - IDE, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " Inductive Grammar, designed for beginners. By an Instructer." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 151 - We stayed here during the whole of this day, which was very pleasant, and repaired our canoe. In the evening we got her completed and all the baggage dry. Here our old Snake guide deserted and took his son with him. I suspect he was afraid of being cast away passing the rapids. At dark one of the squaws, who keep about us, took a crazy fit, and cut her arms from the wrists to the shoulders, with a flint ; and the natives had great trouble and difficulty in getting her pacified. We have some Frenchmen,...
Seite 157 - The more I heard of the river, the more I was convinced it could not empty itself into the ocean to the North of what is called the river of the West, so that with its windings, the distance must be very great.
Seite 59 - Company, and was no more than an association of commercial men, agreeing among themselves to carry on the fur trade, unconnected with any other business, though many of the parties engaged had extensive concerns altogether foreign to it.
Seite 70 - ... incidents occur, it may not be inconsistent with good policy to keep the Journal of as small and portable a size as circumstances will make practicable. It may be observed generally that chastity is not very highly esteemed by these people, and that the severe and loathsome effects of certain Frencb principles are not uncommon among them.
Seite 87 - We have now got into a country which presents little to our view, but scenes of barrenness and desolation; and see no encouraging prospects that it will terminate. Having proceeded (by the course of this river) about two thousand three hundred miles, it may therefore not be improper to make two or three general observations respecting the country we have passed . . . From the...
Seite 167 - We got some dogs and roots from the natives. The roots are of a superior quality to any I had before seen : they are called whapto; resemble a potatoe when cooked, and are about as big as a hen egg,
Seite 120 - This morning our commanding officers thought proper that the Missouri should lose its name at the confluence of the three branches we had left on the...
Seite 37 - ... formed in a solid column round the fire, with sticks in their hands, and the scalps of the Mahas they had killed, tied on them. They kept moving, or jumping round the fire, rising and falling on both feet at once; keeping a continual noise, singing and yelling. In this manner they continued till 1 o'clock at night, when we returned to the boat with two of the chiefs.