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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... negro , the other of a boy and girl of ten- der years . We were amused to notice of how little account the boat was considered , in comparison with the value of time . Whenever any part of the hull was in the way of these spars , axes ...
... NEGRO WAGES AND LABOR . Near the course of the Cumberland are several furnaces and iron mines . Their supply of fuel is drawn from the river forests , and near them wood - land sells at $ 5 per acre . Improved land is roughly estimated ...
... negro women's capacity for labor in the field makes their wages higher than white women's . LIVE FREIGHT . One evening we were hailed in the darkness to come in and take some freight aboard . It proved to be a negro woman which her ...
... negro , you are loth and half - ashamed to offer him for sale at last , and little " Nack , " as he was called , endeared himself to all of us to that degree , that tears stood in our eyes , as well as his , when we were forced to part ...
... negro babies ; turkeys and chickens , and a pet sow , teaching a fine litter of pigs how to root and wallow . Three hundred yards from the house was a gin - house and stable , and in the interval between were two rows of comfortable negro ...