A Winter in the West, Volumen 2Harper & Brothers, 1835 |
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Página 96 - But in liberality they excel : nothing is too good for their friend : give them a fine gun, coat, or other thing, it may pass twenty hands before it sticks : light of heart, strong affections, but soon spent : the most merry creatures that live...
Página 98 - They care for little; because they want but little; and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are ignorant of our pleasures, they are also free from our pains. They are not disquieted with bills of lading and exchange, nor perplexed with chancery suits, and exchequer reckonings.
Página 98 - God and immortality, without the help of metaphysics; for they say, 'there is a great king that made them, who dwells in a glorious country to the southward of them: and that the souls of the good shall go thither, where they shall live again.
Página 208 - Just at the close of day the gentle gales retired, and left the place to the disposal of a profound calm. Not a breeze shook the most tremulous leaf. I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Página 332 - Sharp opened the door; I advanced into the room, and with my left hand I grasped his right wrist, as with an iron hand. The violence of the grasp made Colonel Sharp spring back, and trying to disengage his wrist, he said,' What Covington is this?' I replied,' John A. Covington, sir.'—' I don't know you,
Página 317 - This town is the great mart where all the adjacent tribes, and even those who inhabit the most remote branches of the Mississippi, annually assemble about the latter end of May, bringing with them their furs to dispose of to the traders.
Página 136 - The mallet, — the knife, — the axe, — the boiling caldron, — the remorseless scraping-iron, — have each done their work ; and the fated porker, that was but one minute before grunting in the full enjoyment of bristling hoghood, now cadaverous and
Página 74 - The mounds in the north suburb of St. Louis occupy a commanding position on the Mississippi, and cover ground enough, together, for a large body of men to encamp upon. They stand distinct from, each other, generally in the form of truncated pyramids, with a perfect rectangular base ; at one point four or five tumuli are so grouped together as to form nearly two sides of a square, while at another, several hundred yards off, two or more detached mounds rise singly from the plain. The summit of one...
Página 72 - Mississippi, — once the ultima thule of western adventure, and still the depot of the fur- trade, and the bureau of Indian affairs. Here, the Spaniard, the Frenchman, and the American have in turn held rule, and their blood, with no slight sprinkling of that "of the aborigines, now commingles in the veins of its inhabitants. The aspect of the town partakes of the characteristics of all its original possessors : in one section you find...
Página 341 - ... eighty feet above its floor. The sides of this gigantic cavern rise perpendicularly in some places to the height of fifteen or twenty feet, and in others are formed by the springing of its vaulted roof immediately from its floor. The width of the tunnel varies from fifty to one hundred and fifty feet; its course is that of a continuous curve, resembling the letter S, first winding to the right as we enter on the upper side, then to the left, again to the right, and then again to the left, on...