I positively debated within myself two or three times whether I should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when further on, another glittering morsel caught my eye — the largest of the pieces... Eldorado: Or, California as Seen by a Pioneer, 1850-1900 - Stran 160avtor: David Augustus Shaw - 1900 - 313 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Henry Vizetelly - 1849 - 238 strani
...should take the trouble to bend my back to pick \ip one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, further on, another glittering morsel caught...first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of tho?e mysterious inhabitants of the west,... | |
| 1849 - 814 strani
...should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when further on, another glittering morsel caught...first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants of the west,... | |
| Henry Vizetelly - 1849 - 104 strani
...pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, further on, another glittering morsel caught my eye—the largest of the pieces now before you. I condescended...first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe—perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants of the West,... | |
| 1849 - 896 strani
...should tnke the trouble to bend My back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, further on, another glittering morsel caught...astonishment found that it was a thin scale of what nppears to be pure gold. He then gathered some twenty or thirty similar pieces, which on examination... | |
| John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 strani
...should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, further on, another glittering morsel caught...what appears to be pure gold.' He then gathered some 20 or 30 similar pieces, which on examination convinced him that his suppositions were right. His first... | |
| John Frost - 1850 - 558 strani
...should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, further on, another glittering morsel caught...astonishment found that it was a thin scale of what appeara to be pure gold.' He then gathered some twenty or thirty similar pieces, which on examination... | |
| John Frost - 1851 - 542 strani
...should take the trouble to bend my hack to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, further on, another glittering morsel caught...first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants of the West,... | |
| John Frost - 1857 - 853 strani
...pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, farther on, another glittering morsel caught my eye—the largest of the pieces now before you. I condescended...first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe—perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants of the West,... | |
| 1881 - 592 strani
...largest of the pieces now before you. I condescended to pick it up, and, to my astonishment, found it was a thin scale of what appears to be pure gold!...first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants of the West,... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888 - 866 strani
...should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, further on, another glittering morsel caught...first impression was that this gold had been lost or buried there oy some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants of the west,... | |
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