The Pathfinder or, the Inland seaAegitas, 19. 8. 2016 - Počet stran: 415 The plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer many years since, though the details are altogether of recent invention. The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed. |
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... streams of the electric fluid; but the effects in the woods are familiar to all. On the upper margin of the opening, the viewless influence had piled tree on tree, in such a manner as had not only enabled the two males of the party to ...
... streams of the electric fluid; but the effects in the woods are familiar to all. On the upper margin of the opening, the viewless influence had piled tree on tree, in such a manner as had not only enabled the two males of the party to ...
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... stream, and await his return. "Why, chief, this might do on soundings, and in an offing where one knew the channel," returned old Cap; "but in an unknown region like this I think it unsafe to trust the pilot alone too far from the ship ...
... stream, and await his return. "Why, chief, this might do on soundings, and in an offing where one knew the channel," returned old Cap; "but in an unknown region like this I think it unsafe to trust the pilot alone too far from the ship ...
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... likes to the accounts of the Big Salt Lakes, and to that of their being rivers that flow up stream." "This comes of getting things wrong end foremost," answered Cap, with a condescending nod. "You have thought of your lakes and rifts.
... likes to the accounts of the Big Salt Lakes, and to that of their being rivers that flow up stream." "This comes of getting things wrong end foremost," answered Cap, with a condescending nod. "You have thought of your lakes and rifts.
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... stream, with his eyes fastened on the eddies. Of all the risky journeys, that on an ambushed river is the most risky, in my judgment, and that risk has Jasper run." "And why the devil has the Sergeant sent for me to travel a hundred and ...
... stream, with his eyes fastened on the eddies. Of all the risky journeys, that on an ambushed river is the most risky, in my judgment, and that risk has Jasper run." "And why the devil has the Sergeant sent for me to travel a hundred and ...
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... stream, and that, too, with a swift current." "And what the devil is to prevent these minks of which you speak from shooting us as we double a headland, or are busy in steering clear of the rocks?" "The Lord!—He who has so often helped ...
... stream, and that, too, with a swift current." "And what the devil is to prevent these minks of which you speak from shooting us as we double a headland, or are busy in steering clear of the rocks?" "The Lord!—He who has so often helped ...
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