A Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying Between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains: On the Line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers ...order of the United States' Senate, 1843 - 207 strani |
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A Report on an Exploration of the Country Lying Between the Missouri River ... John Charles Fremont,John Torrey Predogled ni na voljo - 2017 |
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1842.-Altitude of Polaris Aquila Arcturus August barometer Big Blue river Black Hills buffalo Camp of June chronometer creek DETERMINATION OF LATITUDE DETERMINATION OF LONGITUDE Double altitude Encampment fork of Platte Fort Laramie granite grass halt of June Hazy horses hundred feet Index error Indians journey July July 26 June 29 Kansas Kanzas lake Laramie river laris left bank Linn Little Blue river Lower Platte Mean meridian Michx miles Missouri morning mouth mules Nearly clear night Noon halt North fork Nutt o'clock Overclouded party peak plants Platte river prairie preceding Preuss Pursh rain reached Red Buttes Result of calculation ridge right bank road rock sandstone sandy SECOND SERIES South fork stream summits Sun and clouds Sun's lower limb Sunrise 9 Sunset sunshine Sweet Water river Thermometer thunder timber Torr True altitude True central altitude valley Wind River mountains
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Stran 18 - Many of the bulls, less active and less fleet than the cows, paying no attention to the ground, and occupied solely with the hunter, were precipitated to the earth with great force, rolling over and over with the violence of the shock, and hardly distinguishable in the dust. We separated on entering, each singling out his game. My horse was a trained hunter, famous in the west under the name of Proveau, and with his eyes flashing, and the foam flying from his mouth, sprang on after the cow like a...
Stran 60 - I then secured it firmly in its place on the instrument, with strong glue made from a buffalo, and filled it with mercury, properly heated. A piece of skin, which had covered one of the vials, furnished a good pocket, which was well secured with strong thread and glue, and then the brass cover was screwed to its place. The instrument was left some time to dry ; and when I reversed it, a few hours after, I had the satisfaction to find it in perfect order ; its indications being about the same as on...
Stran 67 - Around us, the whole scene had one main, striking feature, which was that of terrible convulsion. Parallel to its length, the ridge was split into chasms and fissures ; between which rose the thin lofty walls, terminated with slender minarets and columns.
Stran 15 - In the interchange of news, and the renewal of old acquaintanceships, we found wherewithal to fill a busy hour ; then we mounted our horses and they shouldered their packs, and we shook hands and parted. Among them, I had found an old companion on the northern prairie, a hardened and hardly served veteran of the mountains, who had been as much hacked and scarred as an old moustache of Napoleon's
Stran 13 - Mounted on a fine horse, without a saddle, and scouring bareheaded over the prairies, Kit was one of the finest pictures of a horseman I have ever seen.
Stran 16 - In the sight of such a mass of life, the traveler feels a strange emotion of grandeur. We had heard from a distance a dull and confused murmuring, and, when we came in view of their dark masses, there was not one among us who did not feel his heart beat quicker. It was the early part of the day, when the herds are feeding; and every where they were in motion.
Stran 42 - Our father is rich, and we expected that you would have brought presents to us — horses, and guns, and blankets. But we are glad to see you. We look upon your coming as the light which goes before the sun ; for you will tell our great father that you have seen us, and that we are naked and poor, and have nothing to eat; and he will send us all these things.
Stran 42 - He was followed by others to the same effect. The observations of the savage appeared reasonable ; but I was aware that they had in view only the present object of detaining me, and were unwilling I should go further into the country. In reply, I asked them, through the interpretation of Mr. Boudeau, to select two or three of their number to accompany us until we should meet their people — they should spread their robes in my tent, and eat at my table, and on their return I would give them presents...
Stran 10 - The men were kept busy in drying the provisions, painting the cart covers, and otherwise completing our equipage, until the afternoon, when powder was distributed to them, and they spent some hours in firing at a mark. We were now fairly in the Indian country, and it began to be time to prepare for the chances of the wilderness.
Stran 17 - ... miles, gave us a fine opportunity to charge them before they could get among the river hills. It was too fine a prospect for a chase to be lost, and, halting for a few moments, the hunters were brought up and saddled, and Kit Carson, Maxwell, and I, started together. They were now somewhat lesa than half a mile distant, and we rode easily along until within about three hundred yards, when a sudden agitation, a wavering in the band, and...