Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852R. Armstrong, 1853 - 320 Seiten |
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Seite 92 - ... nothing but one vast, dreary, and monotonous waste of barren solitude. It is an ocean of desert prairie, where the voice of man is seldom heard, and where no living being permanently resides. The almost total absence of water causes all animals to shun it : even the Indians do not venture to cross it except at two or three points, where they find a few small ponds of water. I was told in New Mexico that, many years since, the Mexicans marked out a route with stakes across this plain, where they...
Seite 58 - ... is found where a horse can clamber up the precipitous sides of the chasm. I could not determine in my own mind whether this remarkable defile had been formed, after a long lapse of time, by the continued action of the current, or had been produced by some great convulsion of nature: perhaps both causes have contributed to its formation, some convulsive operation having first given birth to an extensive fissure, and the ceaseless action of the stream having afterwards reduced it to its present...
Seite 233 - In smaller specimens the blotching beneath is rather more decided. In addition to the colors described, the back is crossed by indistinct bars of darker, eight or nine scales wide and half a scale long. This color is also seen on the skin between the scales under the dark bars, where the bases of the scales themselves are darker, instead of light. There is a tendency towards stripes on the side: first one of light brown, on the outer edge of the abdomen; then an interrupted yellow one at the junction...
Seite 101 - Marcy tells of a Comanche that, " seizing me in his brawny arms while we were yet in the saddle, and laying his greasy head upon my shoulder, he inflicted upon me a most bruin-like squeeze, which I endured with a degree of patient fortitude worthy of the occasion.
Seite 54 - We saddled up at a very early hour this morning, and proceeded on up the river for several miles, when we found a large affluent putting in from the north ; and after travelling a few miles further, we passed many more small tributaries, which caused the main stream to contract into the narrow channel of only twenty feet ; and its bed, which from its confluence with the Mississippi to this place (with the exception of a ridge of rocks which crosses it near Jonesborough, in Texas) had been sand, suddenly...
Seite 17 - They said we would find one more stream of good water about two days' travel from here; that we should then leave the -mountains, and after that find no more fresh water to the sources of the river. The chief represented the river from where it leaves the mountains as flowing over an elevated flat prairie country, totally destitute of water, wood, or grass, and the only substitute for fuel that could be had was the buffalo "chips." They remarked in the course of the interview that some few of their...
Seite 1 - Marcy, 5th Infantry, with his company as an escort, will proceed, without unnecessary delay, to make an examination of the Red river, and the country bordering upon it, from the mouth of Cache creek to its sources, according to the special instructions with which he will be furnished.
Seite 100 - Their details for herdsmen are made with as much regularity as the guard-details at a military post; and even in times of the most profound peace, they guard their animals both night and day, while scouts are often patrolling upon the adjoining heights to give notice of the approach of strangers, when their animals are hurried to a place of security, and everything made ready for defence.
Seite 26 - They, however, go out alone every day upon their hunts, are frequently six or eight miles from the command, and seem to have no fears of the Comanches, as they are liable to encounter them at any moment; and being so poorly mounted that they could not escape, their only alternative would be to act on the defensive. I have cautioned them upon the subject several times, but they say that they are not afraid to meet any of the prairie Indians, provided the odds are not greater than six to one. They...
Seite 99 - I was much diverted with a conversation that passed between them in my presence, and which was interpreted to me by the Delaware. It appeared that the latter had stated to the other the fact of the sphericity of the earth's surface. This idea being altogether new and incomprehensible to the Comanche, was received with much incredulity, and, after gazing a moment intently at the Delaware to ascertain if he were sincere, he asked if that person took him for a child, or if he looked like an idiot. The...