The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland ExpeditionsTrübner and Company, 1863 - 296 Seiten |
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animals ANNIE BESANT Arkansas Arkansas River ascends attached bank Beaver bottom BRADLAUGH Bridger's Pass buffalo California Camp Floyd camping-place cañon Captain CHARLES BRADLAUGH cloth Cottonwood Creek Creek.-Good camp Creek.-Road Creek.-Water crown 8vo deer demy 8vo distance El Paso feet fire ford Fork Fort Bridger Fort Leavenworth Fort Smith Fort Yuma fuel grass abundant grass and water grass plenty ground gutta-percha hand hills horse Humboldt River Indians journey Kanyon last camp leaves little grass Mexico miles estimated miles the road Missouri Missouri River mountain Muddy mules pack party plain Platte poles Post free ravine River.-Good camp road crosses road passes road runs Rock Rocky rope rough route saddle sage Salt Lake City sand sandy Santa season side small branch spring Station stick stream summit tent thence timber track trail Valley wagons Wallah water and grass weather Willow wood Yuma
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Seite 15 - Oriental Customs ; or, an Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures by an Explanatory Application of the Customs and Manners of the Eastern Nations, especially the Jews therein referred to.
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Seite 158 - Dakotas count by the fingers, as is common to most peoples, but with a peculiarity of their own. When they have gone over the fingers and thumbs of both hands, one finger is temporarily turned down for one ten. At the end of the next ten another finger is turned, and so on to a hundred. Opawinge [Opawi"xe], one hundred, is derived from pawinga...
Seite 64 - After traveling about fourteen miles, we were joined by three miners, and our mules, taking a sudden liking for their horses, jogged on at a more brisk rate. The instincts of the mulish heart form an interesting study to the traveler in the mountains. I would, were the comparison not too ungallant, liken it to a woman's, for it is quite as uncertain in its sympathies, bestowing its affections where least expected, and when bestowed, quite as constant, so long as the object is not taken away.
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Seite 19 - Phraseological and Explanatory Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Book of Genesis, by THEODORE PRESTON, MA, Fellow of Trinity Coll., Cambridge.
Seite 141 - They are the most onsartainest varmints in all creation, and I reckon tha'r not mor'n half human ; for you never seed a human, arter you'd fed and treated him to the best fixins in your lodge, jist turn round and steal all your horses, or ary other thing he could lay his hands on.
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