The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1871 - 568 Seiten |
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... Island of San Juan de Fernandez . An ideal blessedness sur- rounds Robinson Crusoe , to our youthful fancy , al- though on stern logical considerations , we should not . care to be cast upon an uninhabited island ourselves . Nothing ...
... Island of San Juan de Fernandez . An ideal blessedness sur- rounds Robinson Crusoe , to our youthful fancy , al- though on stern logical considerations , we should not . care to be cast upon an uninhabited island ourselves . Nothing ...
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... island , in a sea of billowing backs , flowed around on either side by a half - mile current of crazy buffaloes . Here was abundant opportunity to shoot , but not the slightest anxiety for doing so . I was safe ; I had such a view of ...
... island , in a sea of billowing backs , flowed around on either side by a half - mile current of crazy buffaloes . Here was abundant opportunity to shoot , but not the slightest anxiety for doing so . I was safe ; I had such a view of ...
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... islands seen through tropical fog . Atmospheric distance never deceived so completely . The charming gran- deur and tenderness of scale on which this view seemed constructed , were delusions of the mirage . Hot sun and mirroring sand ...
... islands seen through tropical fog . Atmospheric distance never deceived so completely . The charming gran- deur and tenderness of scale on which this view seemed constructed , were delusions of the mirage . Hot sun and mirroring sand ...
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... Island , the moon became as suddenly obscured as if she had been put out with an extinguisher . The clouds grew inky black , and simultaneously the wind rose to a tempest . I never saw in my life such dispatch in getting up a storm ...
... Island , the moon became as suddenly obscured as if she had been put out with an extinguisher . The clouds grew inky black , and simultaneously the wind rose to a tempest . I never saw in my life such dispatch in getting up a storm ...
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... the Willow Island straw , with a delight which would have scarcely been lessened , had the bare boards been substituted as a lying - place . About three o'clock in the morning I was awak- ened 116 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... the Willow Island straw , with a delight which would have scarcely been lessened , had the bare boards been substituted as a lying - place . About three o'clock in the morning I was awak- ened 116 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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