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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... stopped to pick him up , but the bank proving difficult , we went on with- out so pleasant a supper dish . It is a matter of surprise to meet so few farms along the banks of such a stream . But it is the common surprise of the West ...
... stopped at cotton plantations . On both , the hands were at work picking . One , in Mississippi , where we had time to visit the negro quarters , we found to be an outlying plantation without a residence . There were a dozen or twenty ...
... stopping wherever night overtakes them . The masters are plainly dressed , often in home - spun , keeping their eyes about them , noticing the soil , sometimes making a remark on the crops by . the roadside ; but , generally , dogged ...
... stopped in the woods for a lunch , at a roadside fire , left well piled for the next comer , as is the pleasant ... Stopping at a cabin for a few minutes , I was left alone . As I rode out a man on the road joined me , with " How d'ye do ...
... stopping - places in Western Louisiana and Texas . The meals are absolutely invariable , save that fresh pork and sweet potatoes are frequently wanting . There is always , too , the black decoction of the South called coffee , than ...