Narrative of a Journey Round the World: During the Years 1841 and 1842, Band 2H. Colburn, 1847 - 500 Seiten |
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Narrative of a Journey Round the World: During the Years 1841 and 1842, Band 2 Sir George Simpson Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1847 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
afternoon already mentioned appeared banks Bow River breakfast California canoes Captain cattle chief church civilization coast company's Cossacks course Cowlitz Crees crossing distance eight encamped England establishment fact fathers feet fellow fifty fish five four governor grand ground half harbor Hawaiian hills Honolulu horses Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company hundred inasmuch Indians inhabitants Irkutsk Kamehameha Kamschatka Kauai Kiachta Kolyma labor Lake land Lena Liho miles mission missionaries morning mountains native nearly neighborhood night ocean Ochotsk Olekminsk ourselves party passed perhaps poods present pretty question reached Red River Settlement respect roubles Russian American Russian American Company San Francisco Sandwich Islands Saskatchewan Saulteaux savages season seen settlement shore Siberia side Sitka soon station stream thousand tion Tobolsk town trade traveler tribes twenty valley versts vessel village voyage weather whole wind wood Yakuti Yakutsk
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 206 - She was lively and animated, had sparkling, love-inspiring eyes, beautiful teeth, pleasing and expressive features, a fine form, and a thousand other charms; yet her manners were perfectly simple and artless.
Seite 207 - We had been three long hours in this position, and still the mass of ice beneath us held together, when suddenly it was caught by the storm, and hurled against a large field of ice. The crash was terrific, and the mass beneath us was shattered into fragments. At that dreadful moment, when escape seemed impossible, the impulse of selfpreservation implanted in every living being saved us. Instinctively we all sprang at once on the sledges, and urged the dogs to their full speed. They flew across the...
Seite 165 - Then begins the hidecurer's duty. ]The first thing is to put them in soak. This is done by carrying them down at low tide, and making them fast, in small piles, by ropes, and letting the tide come up and cover them. Every day we put in soak twenty-five for each man, which, with us, made an hundred and fifty.
Seite 165 - Every day we put in soak twenty-five for each man, which, with us, made an hundred and fifty. There they lie forty-eight hours, when they are taken out, and rolled up, in wheel-barrows, and thrown into the vats. These vats contain brine, made very strong ; being seawater, with great quantities of salt thrown in. This pickles the hides, and in this they lie forty-eight hours ; the use of the sea-water, into which they are first put, being merely to soften and clean them. From these vats, they are...
Seite 207 - Every moment huge masses of ice around us were dashed against each other, and broken into a thousand fragments. Our little party remained fast on our ice-island, which was tossed to and fro by the waves ; we gazed in most painful inactivity on the wild conflict of the elements, expecting every moment to be swallowed up. We had been three long hours in this...
Seite 219 - Angeles, which he did not visit, as 'the noted abode of the lowest drunkards and gamblers of the country. This den of thieves is situated, as one may expect from its being almost twice as populous as the two other pueblos taken together, in one of the loveliest and most fertile districts of Cal.
Seite 166 - ... of the Californian navy. In the missions a great deal of wine was grown, good enough to be sent for sale to Mexico ; but, with the exception of what we got at the Mission of Santa Bar'bara, the native wine, that we tasted, was such trash as nothing but politeness could have induced us to swallow.
Seite 107 - Cree half-bred, of French origin, who appeared to have borrowed his dialect from both his parents ; a North Briton, who understood only the Gaelic of his native hills ; Canadians, who, of course, knew French; and Sandwich Islanders, who jabbered a medley of Chinook, English, and their own vernacular jargon. Add to all this that the passengers were natives of England, Scotland, Russia, Canada, and The Hudson's Bay Company's territories; and 3'ou have the prettiest congress of nations, the nicest confusion...
Seite 227 - Strait and the equator. On this interesting subject we quote from Sir George Simpson's Overland Journey: ' The whole group appears to have been thrown up from the deep by volcanic action advancing from the northwest to the south-east, and increasing in force as it advanced; so that, while island rose after island, each grew at once in height and in breadth according to the intensity of the power that heaved it upwards from the waters.
Seite 173 - Vallejo is a good-looking man of about forty-five years of age, who has risen in the world by his own talent and energy. His father, who was one of the most respectable men in California, died about ten years ago at Monterey, leaving to a large family of sons and daughters little other inheritance than a degree of intelligence and steadiness almost unknown in the country. The patrimonial estate...