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 sayfa |
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Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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.
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Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 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