 | 1815 - 558 Seiten
...closely, that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river; the bear sprang after them, and was within a few feet of the hindmost, wheu one of the hunters ou shore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - 1814 - 518 Seiten
...closely, that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river; the bear sprang after them, and...the head and finally killed him: they dragged him to tbe shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in different directions: the bear was... | |
 | 1815 - 554 Seiten
...closely, that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river; the bear sprang after them, and...they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp." Vol I. p. 216, 217. They now passed the Muscle Shell River, which, the Indians informed them, lakes... | |
 | 1815 - 628 Seiten
...closely, that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river; the bear sprang after them, and...balls had passed through him in different directions ; thr bear was old and the meat tough, so that they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp." Vol.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 Seiten
...closely, that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular precipice of twenty feet into the river. The bear sprang after them, and...few feet of the hindmost, when one of the hunters on the shore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that... | |
 | 1816 - 658 Seiten
...closely, that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular precipice of twenty feet into the river. The bear sprang after them, and...few feet of the hindmost, when one of the hunters on the chore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 Seiten
...closely, that they threwaside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river ; the bear sprang after them,...balls had passed through him in different directions. BUFFALOB HUNTINO. ('From the samej On the north we passed a precipice about one hundred and twenty... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1817 - 860 Seiten
...down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river ; the bear sprang after them, and л\гая within a few feet of the hindmost, when one of the...balls had passed through him in different directions. BÜFFALOK HUNTING. (From the tamej On the north we passed a precipice about one hundred and twenty... | |
 | 1823 - 496 Seiten
...and he at last pursued two of them so closely, that they jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river; the bear sprang after them, and...of the hunters on shore shot him in the head, and killed him. They dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through his body in... | |
 | Daniel Blowe - 1820 - 788 Seiten
...saved themselves by leaping down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into a river ; the bear phimjed after them, and was within a few feet of the hindmost, when a hunter from the shore shot him in the head, and finally killed him. Another of these ferocious animals... | |
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They struck him several times, but, instead of weakening the monster, each shot seemed only to direct him towards the hunters, till at last he pursued two of them so closely that they threw aside their guns and pouches, and jumped down a perpendicular... 
