Discovery of the Yosemite: And the Indian War of 1851, which Led to that EventFleming H. Revell, 1880 - 331 Seiten |
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acorns afterwards animals appeared band battalion bear California called camp Capitan Capt Captain Boling Chandler Chow-chillas cliff command commissioners Coultersville crossed deer discovered discovery Dome El Capitan expedition explorations fall feet fire followed Fresno given Gold Gulch granite grass grizzly guard Half Dome halt height horses Hutchings ie-ya Indian Cañon Indian name interpreter Jose Rey Kah-we-ah killed King's river known lake locality looked Major Savage Mariposa Battalion Mariposa county meadows Merced river miles miners Mission Indians Mono tribe Monos mule murders Nevada Nevada Fall north side object old chief once Pai-ute party passed pine Po-ho-no probably reached replied ridge rifle rocks rocky route San Joaquin Sandino scenery scouts seen sent Sierras slope snow soon South Fork Spanish Spencer squaws stream supply supposed tain Ten-ie-ya territory tion told trail Tuolumne Vernal vicinity village Yosem Yosemite Fall Yosemite Valley
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Seite 140 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Seite 235 - Our imagination loves to be filled with an object, or to grasp at any thing that is too big for its capacity. We are flung into a pleasing astonishment at such unbounded views, and feel a delightful stillness and amazement in the soul at the apprehension of them.
Seite 45 - do not want anything from the Great Father you tell me about. The Great Spirit is our father and he has always supplied us with all we need. We do not want anything from white men. Our women are able to do our work. Go, then. Let us remain in the mountains where we were born, where the ashes of our fathers have been given to the wind. I have said enough.
Seite 55 - To obtain a more distinct and quiet view, I had left the trail and my horse and wallowed through the snow alone to a projecting granite rock. So interested was I in the scene before me, that I did not observe that my comrades had all moved on, and that I would soon be left indeed alone. My situation attracted the attention of Major Savage — who was riding in...
Seite 242 - Steep mountain-sides, allowing these giants to grow, rank above rank, without obstructing each other's sunshine, seem peculiarly favorable to the production of these serviceable giants. But the Summit Meadows are peculiar in their heavy fringe of balsam fir, of all sizes, from those barely one foot high to those hardly less than two hundred, their branches surrounding them in collars, their extremities gracefully bent down by the weight of winter snows, making them here, I am confident, the most...
Seite 173 - I will follow the white people and make them fear me. You may kill me, Sir Captain, but you shall not live in peace. I will follow in your footsteps. I will not leave my home, but be with the spirits among the rocks, the waterfalls, in the rivers and in the winds; wherever you go I will be with you.
Seite 53 - The immensity of rock I had seen in my vision on the Old Bear Valley trail from Ridley's Ferry was here presented to my astonished gaze. The mystery of that scene was here disclosed. My awe was increased by this nearer view.
Seite 55 - ... of one mile. When we speak of a giant twenty-five feet high, it conveys some definite impression ; but to tell of one three thousand feet high, would only bewilder, and convey no meaning whatever. So, at first, these stupendous walls painfully confuse the mind. By degrees, day after day, the sight of them clears it, until, at. last, one receives a just impression of their solemn immensity.
Seite 53 - Our outward sense Is but of gradual grasp — and as it is That what we have of feeling most intense Outstrips our faint expression; even so this Outshining and o'erwhelming edifice Fools our fond gaze, and greatest of the great Defies at first our Nature's littleness, Till, growing with its growth, we thus dilate Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.
Seite 46 - My young men believed the white gold-diggers were our enemies; we now know they are not, and we will be glad to live in peace with them. We will stay here and be friends. My people do not want to go to the plains. The tribes who go there are some of them very bad. They will make war on my people. We cannot live on the plains with them. Here we can defend ourselves against them.