Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of the Best and Rarest Contemporary Volumes of Travel, Descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, During the Period of Early American Settlement, Band 29Reuben Gold Thwaites A. H. Clark Company, 1906 |
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abundant arrived Assiniboine Athabasca banks baptism baptized beautiful beaver Black-Feet Black-Foot Black-gowns Blanchet Boat Encampment branch British buffalo Caledonia camp Canadian canoe Captain Cascade Catholic chief coast Columbia Colville cross Crows encamped enemies falls Farnham Father Father de Smet feast feet fish Flat-Heads forests Fort Alexandria Fort Colville Fort Langley Fort Vancouver heart Heaven holy honor horses Hudson Bay Hudson's Bay Company hundred Ignatius Indians Island journey Kalispels Lake latitude lodge Mary's miles mission missionary Missouri Mount mouth Nanaboojoo Nez-Percés North West Company northern Oregon Oregon Missions Oregon Territory P. J. De Smet Pacific passed pine plain Potawotomies prairie prayers present received rise river rocks Rocky Mountains salmon savages Smet's Letters snow souls Spokane stream territory trade Travels trees tribe upper valley Vancouver vessel village visited volume xxi volume xxvii Willamette
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Seite 138 - Mere description can give little idea of the terrors of the bar of the Columbia; all who have seen it have spoken of the wildnessof the scene, and the incessant roar of the waters, representing it as one of the most fearful sights that can possibly meet the eye of the sailor.
Seite 216 - He stopped his flight As easily as the Arab reins his steed, And stood at pleasure 'neath Heaven's zenith, like A lamp suspended from its azure dome. Whilst underneath him the world's mountains lay Like mole-hills, and her streams like lucid threads; Then downward, faster than a falling star, He...
Seite 297 - Christmas, the day on which the little band (of 144 adults) was to be added to the number of the true children of God, will never be effaced from the memory of our good Indians. The manner in which we celebrated midnight Mass may give you an idea of our festival. The signal for rising, which was to be given a few minutes before midnight, was...
Seite 78 - ... safe navigation, and receiving many tributaries in its course to Colville, among which are the Kootanie, or Flat Bow, and the Flat Head or Clarke river from the east, and that of Colville from the west.
Seite 178 - ... Ignatius, among the Kalispels. After selecting a site for a new establishment of St. Ignatius, "in the neighborhood of the cavern of New Manresa and its quarries, and a fall of water more than two hundred feet, presenting every advantage for the erection of mills," he hastened to Walla Walla, where he embarked in a small boat and descended the Columbia as far as Fort Vancouver.
Seite 164 - I7th, about eleven o'clock, we came in sight of our dear mission of Willamette. A cart was procured to conduct the nuns to their dwelling, which is about five miles from the river. In two hours we were all assembled in the chapel of Willamette, to adore and thank our Divine Saviour by the solemn chanting of the Te Deum.
Seite 87 - The timber consists of pines, firs, spruce, oaks, (red and white), ash, arbutus, arbor vitae, cedar, poplar, maple, willow, cherry, and tew. with a close undergrowth of hazel, rubus, roses, &c. The richest and best soil is found on the second or middle prairie, and is best adapted for agriculture, the high and low being excellent for pasture land.
Seite 197 - ... withdrawn all the coals, they cover the stones with grass or wet hay; then place a layer of camash, another of wet hay, a third of bark overlaid with mould, whereon is kept a glowing fire for fifty, sixty, and sometimes seventy hours.
Seite 54 - An annual council, composed of the governor-general, chief factors and chief traders, is held at York Factory. Before this body are brought the reports of the trade of each district ; propositions for new enterprises, and modifications of old ones; and all these and other matters deemed important, being acted upon, the proceedings had thereon and the reports from the several districts are forwarded to the Board of Directors in London, and subjected to its final order. "This shrewd company never allow...
Seite 199 - Since my arrival among the Indians, the feast of the glorious Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary has ever been to me a day of great consolation. I had time to prepare for the celebration of this solemn festival. Thanks be to the instructions and counsels of a brave Canadian, Mr. Berland...