Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska: Formerly Russian America--now Ceded to the United States--and in Various Other Parts of the North PacificJ. Murray, 1868 - 331 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 41
Seite 16
... side houses , I could relate enough to fill this volume , but will say nothing ; * for the very good * But I must mention one fact interesting in the history of journalism on the Pacific . In 1865 a small newspaper was started in the ...
... side houses , I could relate enough to fill this volume , but will say nothing ; * for the very good * But I must mention one fact interesting in the history of journalism on the Pacific . In 1865 a small newspaper was started in the ...
Seite 19
... side adorned with fringes of tails derived from marten or squirrel . Among them one old hag attracted some notice , from her repulsive appearance and the short pipe which she seemed to enjoy . On nearing a small wharf already erected at ...
... side adorned with fringes of tails derived from marten or squirrel . Among them one old hag attracted some notice , from her repulsive appearance and the short pipe which she seemed to enjoy . On nearing a small wharf already erected at ...
Seite 25
... side . On reaching the glacier , its presence was rendered very obvious , by the cracking of the ice , and the careering of the stones from its surface . This was incessant ; now a shower of pebbles , now a few hundredweight of boulders ...
... side . On reaching the glacier , its presence was rendered very obvious , by the cracking of the ice , and the careering of the stones from its surface . This was incessant ; now a shower of pebbles , now a few hundredweight of boulders ...
Seite 32
... side of him pierce the prostrate bodies of his com- panions . The third man , Buckley , an Irishman , who afterwards joined them , had been stabbed repeatedly by the Chilicotens , and fell , faint from the loss of blood , remaining ...
... side of him pierce the prostrate bodies of his com- panions . The third man , Buckley , an Irishman , who afterwards joined them , had been stabbed repeatedly by the Chilicotens , and fell , faint from the loss of blood , remaining ...
Seite 34
... side filled with shot . Frederick Harrison was also con- siderably cut up . Farquharson was the only one who escaped unhurt , although his horse was shot under him . He escaped into the bush , where he was four days wandering about ...
... side filled with shot . Frederick Harrison was also con- siderably cut up . Farquharson was the only one who escaped unhurt , although his horse was shot under him . He escaped into the bush , where he was four days wandering about ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Alaska American Anadyr Anadyr River arrived Avatcha bank Barclay Sound Bering Straits blankets British Columbia Bute Inlet California camp canoe Captain Cariboo CHAP Chilicotens Co-Yukon coal coast Colonel Bulkley Company Cowichan Cowichan River deer distance dogs dollars early Edition expedition explorers Fcap feet fire forest Fort Yukon friends furs glacier harbour Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Indians journey Kamchatka Lake land logs Malemute Michael's miles morning mountains mouth natives Norton Sound Nulato Ochotsk Pacific paddles party passed Petropaulovski Plover Bay Port Port Clarence Portrait Post 8vo raft reached reindeer river rocks round route Russian America salmon San Francisco settlement shot Sitka skin sledges snow shoes steamer stream Tchuktchi Telegraph town trade travelling tribes trip Ulukuk Unalachleet Vancouver Island vessels Victoria village Vols voyage whaling whilst winter Woodcuts woods Yukon Yukon River
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - It is in this very latitude where we now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed.
Seite 3 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Seite 25 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Seite 1 - And very often have we heard How men are killed and undone, By overturns of carriages, By thieves and fires in London. We know what risks all landsmen run, From noblemen to tailors; Then, Bill, let us thank Providence That you and I are sailors !
Seite 2 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Seite 278 - Perhaps in no other American city would the ladies invoice so high per head as in San Francisco, when they go out to the opera, or to party, or ball. Their point lace is deeper, their moire antique stiffer, their skirts a trifle longer, their corsage an inch lower, their diamonds more brilliant, — and more of them, — than the cosmopolite is likely to find elsewhere.
Seite 324 - ... overlies the blue sandstone, which, in its turn, I think, covers the blue slates. The coal seam is very limited, being on the extreme point of a bluff, and the greater part of it has been denuded. The fossils are very poor, vegetable, and resemble fuci. The coal is of good quality, bituminous, noncaking, and leaves a gray ash. The seam is sixteen inches wide.
Seite 6 - A NOTE MADE BY ME MICHAEL LOK the elder, touching the Strait of Sea, commonly called Fretum Anian, in the South Sea, through the Northwest passage of Meta incognita.
Seite 19 - An Investigation of the Principles of Athenian Architecture; or, the Results of a Recent Survey conducted chiefly with reference to the Optical Refinements exhibited in the construction of the Ancient Buildings at Athens.