Seeking the Golden Fleece: A Record of Pioneer Life in California : to which is Annexed Footprints of Early Navigators, Other Than Spanish, in California, with an Account of the Voyage of the Schooner DolphinA. Roman, 1877 - 352 strani |
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Stran 97 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
Stran 34 - THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET. How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew...
Stran 90 - It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Stran 276 - The inland we found to be farre different from the shoare, a goodly country, and fruitful! soyle, stored with many blessings fit for the vse of man : infinite was the company of very large and fat Deere which there we sawe by thousands, as we supposed, in a heard ; besides a multitude of a strange kinde of Conies, by farre exceeding them in number : their heads and bodies, in which...
Stran 277 - Nova Albion, and that for two causes ; the one in respect of the white banks and cliffs, which lie towards the sea, and the other, because it might have some affinity with our country in name, which sometime was so called.
Stran 300 - It has hitherto been the fate of these regions," writes Kotzebue, "like that of modest merit or humble virtue, to remain unnoticed; but posterity will do them justice; towns and cities will hereafter flourish where all is now desert; the waters, over which scarcely a solitary boat is yet seen to glide, will reflect the flags of all nations ; and a happy prosperous people receiving with thankfulness what prodigal nature bestows for their use, will disperse her treasures over every part of the world.
Stran 23 - I'll drain the rivers dry, A pocket full of rocks bring home, So brothers, don't you cry! Oh, California ! That's the land for me, I'm going to Sacramento, With my washbowl on my knee.
Stran 139 - A lone woman, sick and destitute, is curtained off in the corner of the room. She lost her husband on the plains, and has been supporting herself, with the assistance of a few friends, until the flood drove her out. She was brought here, with six men. the night before last. Some are dying on the floor; others, dead, are sewed up in blankets and sunk in the water in a room on the first floor.
Stran 275 - Malucos, and therehence to sail the course of the Portugals by the Cape of Buena Esperanza. 'Upon this resolution, he began to...
Stran 308 - Indians, for life, belong to the mission, and if any neophyte should repent of his apostacy from the religion of his ancestors and desert, an armed force is sent in pursuit of him, and drags him back to punishment apportioned to the degree of aggravation attached to his crime. It does not often happen that a voluntary convert succeeds in his attempt to escape, as the wild Indians have a great contempt and dislike for those who have entered the missions, and they will frequently not only refuse to...