 | 1814 - 638 Seiten
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 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Nicholas Biddle - 1814 - 518 Seiten
...moderate wind." captain Lewis who was on shore with one hunter met about eight o'clock two white bears: of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians...are often defeated with the loss of one or more of the party. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply them,... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - 1815 - 460 Seiten
...moderate wind : Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians...with which the traders supply them, they are obliged to approach very near to the bear ; and as no wound except through the head or heart is mortal, they... | |
 | 1815 - 586 Seiten
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 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - 1815 - 422 Seiten
...moderate wind : Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians...and even then are often defeated with the loss of oue or more of their number. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 616 Seiten
...mortal ; and they have even escaped after being shot in several places through the body. The Indians never attack him but in parties of six or eight persons,...are often defeated with the loss of one or more of the party ; and when they go in quest of him, paint themselves, and perform all the superstitious rites... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - 1815 - 160 Seiten
...even escaped after heing aliot in several places through the hody. The Indians never attack him hut in parties of six or eight persons, and even then are often defeated with the loss of one or more of the party ; and when they gq in quest of him, paint themselves, and perform all the superstitious rites... | |
 | 1823 - 496 Seiten
...obstinacy, that even the natives of the country never venture to attack them but in parties of eight or ten, and even then are often defeated with the loss of one or more of their number. Though to a skilful rifleman the danger is very much diminished, the bear is still an animal of tremendous... | |
 | 1821 - 494 Seiten
...obstinacy, that even the natives of the country never venture to attack them but in parties of eight or ten, and even then are often defeated with the loss of one or more of their number. Though to a skilful rifleman the danger is very much diminished, thel>ear is still an animal of tremendous... | |
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Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians had given us dreadful accounts : they never attack him but in parties of six or eight persons, and even... 
