A Journey Through Texas, Or, A Saddle-trip on the Southwestern Frontier: With a Statistical AppendixDix, Edwards & Company, 1857 - Počet stran: 516 Excerpt from A Journey Through Texas; Or a Saddle-Trip on the South-Western Frontier: With a Statistical Appendix At the same time, I do not desire to engage in it, as I hardly need assure you, in a spirit at all inconsistent with a desirable friendship. Rather, in explaining the significance which, in my own mind, attaches to my narrative of facts, relative to the question upon which we have the misfortune to be divided in judgment, I shall hope 'to lessen. Instead of aggravating, the causes of our difference. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... appearance of villas , scattered on the hills that border the north side of the river , and by the concentration of human life and motion along the bank . But a moment after these indica- tions attract your attention , the steamer ...
... appeared , was the owner of twenty negroes ; for he mentioned that his whole family , including twenty black people , * were laid up with erysipelas the previous year , and he had lost one of his best boys . Since then he had had ...
... appearance that ill accorded with the scenery . Negro quarters , separate from the family dwelling , we saw scarcely anywhere . The labor appeared about equally divided between black and white . Sometimes we saw them at work together ...
... appeared that among young men a bowie - knife was a universal , and a pistol a not at all unusual , companion in Kentucky . Frankfort has a remarkable situation on the Kentucky river , between its bank and a high bluff , which gives a ...
... appeared in the distance running down the levee , with a carpet - bag , straight for us . The last bell had been rung with extra - terrible din , the gang - plank hauled aboard , and men were stationed at the hawsers to cast off ...