Rides Out and about: A Book of Travels and AdventuresReligious Tract Society, 1878 - 159 Seiten |
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Seite 158 - For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels.
Seite 95 - Owing to the very limited space for passengers, and the increasing demand for places, the writer had to wait for ten days before an opportunity of starting presented itself. Meanwhile, he often felt doubtful as to how far he might be able to endure a continuous ride of five hundred and forty hours, with no other intermission than a stoppage of about forty minutes twice a day, and a walk, from time to time, over the more difficult ground, or up and down stiff hills and mountain passes, and with only...
Seite 137 - and, on turning to see what these were, we found them to be fire-flies, a number of which were gliding in beautiful curves across a stream, like silently floating stars of bright green fire amongst the deepening shades of the surrounding foliage. This was at the head of the Concho, a tributary of the river Colorado of Texas, and from hence onward the prairies gradually became more and more sprinkled with trees, until entirely lost in the vast forests of the western limits of the Mississippi valley....
Seite 146 - They go in for the stealings," more than for their regularly recognised emolument. The recent defalcations and disclosures in the highest circles at Washington abundantly prove the truth of this remark. To-day we breakfasted at Scullyville, a station kept by the governor of the Choctaws, who has here a thriving farm. Near one of the Indian villages we observed a post with a hole at the top, through which balls are driven with sticks by the Indians when playing their national game. This sport requires...
Seite 109 - We were now near the great Tulares Lake, which is more than fifty miles long, and is named from the abundance of the tule-rushes (Stir pus lacustris), which form a margin around it three miles wide; they are each about fifteen feet high, and nearly an inch in diameter. It has been shown by experiment that the evaporation from this lake is at the rate of a quarter of an inch per day in the hot season. There is scarcely a single bridge between San Francisco and the Arkansas River, so that we often...
Seite 135 - But never was the sound more welcome than to-day at noon, after sixteen hours' fasting during an airy ride in these clear upland regions. On dismounting at the station we found a good dish of dried apples stewed, fried steaks, and hot coffee, and never ate a breakfast with a keener relish. During the past week we have travelled through many " dog-towns," or districts full of the burrows of the prairie marmot (Arctomys Ludoviciana).
Seite 138 - to keep her combs in," and means to fulfil his engagement. He seems to be much of a savage himself, if we may judge by his vile conversation and constant oaths, even worse than the generality of his fraternity. On one occasion he detained us and the mails a quarter of an hour whilst quarrelling with another Overland employe, and, after mutual threats of "whipping...
Seite 128 - He was lightly clothed, having merely linen drawers, and appeared to be very strong-limbed and goodtempered. THIRTEENTH DAY Frontiers of Texas During the night we halted for a meal near the campfire of an emigrant party proceeding to California. Their waggons were arranged in a semi-circle, and the usual precautions taken to avoid a surprise by Indians or a stampede of the horses. The party were comfortably reclining on the ground, some smoking and partaking of their evening meal of tea, slapjack,...
Seite 135 - Throughout our Overland journey our approach to a station, whether previous to a relay or a meal, was announced at a distance by a long blast from the conductor's horn, often heard far away in the silence of the wilds, and serving to economize time by enabling the station-keepers to prepare the requirements both of the hungry passengers and jaded mules. But never was the sound more welcome than to-day at noon, after sixteen hours' fasting during an airy ride in these clear upland regions.
Seite 133 - ... he had assumed to be an ordinary pool or temporary accumulation of water in a prairie hollow. At this station we had for supper some excellent bread, the best on the route; and there was a refinement about the spot very different from the rugged aspect of the generality of Overland stations and their inmates. This was owing to the presence of a cheerful matronly woman (the wife of one of the stationkeepers), and two gentle girls, her young daughters, bright "prairie flowers" not often seen in...