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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... side , gave a sagacious wink with one of its bright bead eyes , as much as to say , " Do you look out for yourself , never mind me . " Near another we passed a husking bee - a circle of neighbors , tossing rapidly bright ears of corn ...
... side of the river , nearly opposite Portland , appeared a place of great growth and energy . From the hammering , we ... side there is no village of consequence below Louisville . Travelers usually make the observation in descending the ...
... side of the free states . They certainly have more neat and numerous villages , and I judge more improved lands along the river bank ; but the dwell- ings , not counting negro huts , appeared to us nearly on a par , and the farms , at a ...
... side with state - rooms , which open also out upon a narrow upper guard or gallery . Perched above all this is the pilot - house , and a range of state - rooms for the pilots and officers , popularly known as " Texas . " To this Texas ...
... side - wheel steamer of a small class , upon a shoal , almost high and dry . She had been lying for a month where she was , all hands discharged , and the whole ma- chine idle . We afterwards passed two or three others 28 A JOURNEY ...