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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... and taste . It is a customary joke to call their attention to this , and encourage them to dilate upon it when the boat's head has been turned around without their notice . And I cannot say with 24 A JOURNEY THROUGH TEXAS .
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... head , and a tackle led from its top to a ring in the deck . Then , by heaving on the windlass , the boat is lifted bodily off the ground . As soon as she swings free of bottom , steam is applied with fury , and forward she goes until ...
... head branches unite , through a comparatively level and limited district , though watering an immense region , is but a small and quiet stream . Its banks , so far as navigation extends , are low , though frequently bluffs of small ...