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... timber in which we had encamped inter- fered with astronomical observations , and our wet and damaged stores required exposure to the sun . Accordingly the tents were struck early the next morning , and , leaving camp at six o'clock ...
... timber in which we had encamped inter- fered with astronomical observations , and our wet and damaged stores required exposure to the sun . Accordingly the tents were struck early the next morning , and , leaving camp at six o'clock ...
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... timber . Making our usual halt at noon , after a day's march of twenty - four miles , we reached the Big Blue , and encamped on the uplands of the western side , near a small creek , where was a fine large spring of very cold water ...
... timber . Making our usual halt at noon , after a day's march of twenty - four miles , we reached the Big Blue , and encamped on the uplands of the western side , near a small creek , where was a fine large spring of very cold water ...
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... timber about seven miles from our noon halt , after a day's march of twenty - two miles . The air was keen the next morning at sunrise , the thermometer stand- ing at 44 ° , and it was sufficiently cold to make overcoats very ...
... timber about seven miles from our noon halt , after a day's march of twenty - two miles . The air was keen the next morning at sunrise , the thermometer stand- ing at 44 ° , and it was sufficiently cold to make overcoats very ...
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... timber . In the sight of such a mass of life , the traveller feels a strange emotion of grandeur . We had heard from a distance a dull and confused murmuring , and , when we came in view of their dark masses , there was not one among us ...
... timber . In the sight of such a mass of life , the traveller feels a strange emotion of grandeur . We had heard from a distance a dull and confused murmuring , and , when we came in view of their dark masses , there was not one among us ...
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... timber , apparently pine , grow in the ravines , and streaks of clay or sand whiten their slopes . We crossed during the morning a number of hollows , timbered princi- pally with box elder , ( acer negundo , ) poplar , and elm . Brady's ...
... timber , apparently pine , grow in the ravines , and streaks of clay or sand whiten their slopes . We crossed during the morning a number of hollows , timbered princi- pally with box elder , ( acer negundo , ) poplar , and elm . Brady's ...
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1843-altitudes of Polaris altitudes of Polaris animals appearance Arcturus bank bottom breeze broken buffalo camp carbonate chronom chronometer clay clouds creek crossed Determination of latitude Determination of longitude diggings Double altitudes Dubuque east 4th eighteen hundred encamped feet fossil Frémont grass groves halted hills horses Index error Indians iron journey July Kansas river lake land Laramie river lead limestone Lyræ Mean miles mineral Mineral Point morning night noon North fork northeast northwest Nutt OBSERVATIONS pass pines Platte river Prairie du Chien Prevailing rocks rain region RESULT OF CALCULATION ridge road rolling prairie sand sandstone sandy SECOND SERIES second-rate snow Soil southeast southwest species specimens stipulated streams and springs Sub-soil sun's lower limb Sunrise Sunset surface Sweet Water thermometer third-rate timber township trail travelled treaty True altitude valley watered by streams Wind river mountains Wisconsin
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Seite 66 - Though this was a fine passage, still it was a defile of the most rugged mountains known, and we had many a rough and steep slippery place to cross before reaching the end. In this place the sun rarely shone ; snow lay along the border of the small stream which flowed through it, and occasional icy passages made the footing of the mules very insecure, and the rocks and ground were moist with the trickling waters in this spring of mighty rivers. We soon had the satisfaction to find ourselves riding...
Seite 69 - I had brought for the purpose, as now the use of our toes became necessary to a further advance. I availed myself of a sort of comb of the mountain, which stood against the wall like a buttress, and which the wind and the solar radiation, joined to the steepness of the smooth rock, had kept almost entirely free from snow. Up this I made my way rapidly. Our cautious method of advancing...
Seite 229 - Sutter — a gentleman who had formerly lived in Missouri, and, emigrating to this country, had become the possessor of a principality. I assured them that, from the heights of the mountain before us, we should doubtless see the valley of the Sacramento river, and with one effort place ourselves again in the midst of plenty.
Seite 262 - Here they lay from midnight till morning. At daylight they resumed the pursuit, and about sunrise discovered the horses; and, immediately dismounting and tying up their own, they crept cautiously to a rising ground which intervened, from the crest of which they perceived the encampment of four lodges close by. They proceeded quietly, and had got within thirty or forty yards of their object, when a movement among the horses discovered them to the Indians: giving the war shout, they instantly charged...
Seite 63 - ... not dried this with Indian skill, part of it was spoiled,' and what remained of good was as hard as wood, having much the taste and appearance of so many pieces of bark. Even of this, our stock was rapidly diminishing in a camp which was capable of consuming two buffaloes in every twenty-four hours. These animals had entirely disappeared, and it was not probable that we should fall in with them again until we returned to the Sweet Water.
Seite 44 - We were ready to depart; the tents were struck, the mules geared up, and our horses saddled, and we walked up to the fort to take the stirrup cup with our friends in an excellent home-brewed preparation. While thus pleasantly engaged, seated in one of the little cool chambers, at the door of which a man had been stationed to prevent all intrusion from the Indians, a number of chiefs, several of them powerful, fine-looking men, forced their way into the room in spite of all opposition. Handing me...
Seite 245 - Sacramento river about ten miles below. Never did a name sound more sweetly ! We felt ourselves among our countrymen ; for the name of American, in these distant parts, is applied to the citizens of the United States. To our eager inquiries he answered, " I am a vaquero (cowherd) in the service of Capt. Sutter, and the people of this rancheria work for him.
Seite 216 - The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark-green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for we had become fatigued with mountains, and the free expanse of moving waves was very grateful. It was set like a gem in the mountains, which, from our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely. At the western end it communicated with the line of basins we had left a few days since ; and on the opposite side it swept a ridge of snowy mountains, the...
Seite 42 - Some came for presents, and others for information of our object in coming to the country; now and then one would dart up to the tent on horseback, jerk off his trappings and stand silently at the door, holding his horse by the halter, signifying his desire to trade. Occasionally a savage would stalk in with an invitation to a feast of honor, a dog feast, and deliberately sit down and wait quietly until I was ready to accompany him.
Seite 160 - Taking leave at this point of the waters of Bear river, and of the geographical basin which encloses the system of rivers and creeks which belong to the Great Salt Lake, and which so richly...