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aboard American anchored arrived Astoria beaver became British called canoe Cape Captain Vancouver Cascade Range Charles Wilkes Chief Chief Kamiakin closeby Columbia River command commenced Cowlitz crew Discovery east eastern Washington England expedition explorer famous Fraser fur post fur trading fur trappers George Vancouver gold Governor Gray harbor horses Hudson's Bay Company hundred Indians Juan de Fuca Kamiakin Kitsap Lake land later Lieutenant lived located McLoughlin Meares miles Mountains mouth naval navy nearby Nisqually Nootka North West Company northward Okanogan Oregon Pacific Northwest Peter Puget Port Townsend Portland Puget Sound Quadra railroad Rainier reached region returned Rockies Ross sailing ship sailors San Juan Islands Seattle Senor shore soon Spain Spaniards Spanish Spokane House stands Stevens Strait of Juan Tacoma Territory today's city town tracks traveled trip U.S. Army Valley Vancouver Island Vancouver's vessel Walla Walla warship waters Wenatchee Whidbey Whitman Wilkes Yakima
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Página 63 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Página 177 - You ask me to plow the ground! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone! Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I can not enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men! But how dare I cut off my mother's hair?
Página 44 - I make this communication to you with the privity of the President, who expresses an anxious wish that you would consent to join me in this enterprise...
Página 246 - ... wild horsemen in single file, clashing their shields, singing and beating their drums as they marched past us. Then they formed a circle and dashed around us, while our little group stood there, the center of their wild evolutions. They would gallop up as if about to make a charge, then wheel round and round, sounding their loud whoops until they had apparently worked themselves up into an intense excitement. Then some score or two dismounted, and forming a ring danced for about twenty minutes,...
Página 246 - They were in all the bravery of their war array, gaudily painted and decorated with their wild trappings. Their plumes fluttered above them, while below skins and trinkets and all kinds of fantastic embellishments flaunted in the sunshine. Their horses, too, were arrayed in the most glaring finery.
Página 44 - The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce.
Página 51 - About eight o'clock, a convenient place would be selected for breakfast, about three quarters of an hour being allotted for the multifarious operations of unpacking and repacking the equipage, laying and removing the cloth, boiling and frying, eating and drinking; and, while the preliminaries were arranging, the hardier among us would wash and shave, each person carrying soap and towel in his pocket, and finding a mirror in the same sandy or rocky basin that held the water. About two in the afternoon...
Página 120 - I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Página 51 - In five minutes, woe to the inmates that were slow in dressing ; the tents were tumbling about our ears ; and, within half an hour, the camp would be raised, the canoes laden, and the paddles keeping time to some merry old song. About eight o'clock, a convenient place would be selected for breakfast, about three...
Página 11 - SWEET AUBURN! loveliest village of the plain; Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed : Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...