 During the whole of the three days that it took us to reach Edmonton House, we saw nothing else but these animals covering the plains as far as the eye could reach, and so numerous were they, that at times they impeded our progress, filling the air with...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - 第 55 頁由 編輯 - 1859完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1859 - 588 頁
...whole of three days that it took us to reach Edmonton House, we saw nothing else but these animals covering the plains as far as the eye could reach...selecting the fattest of the cows, taking only the tongue, find boss or hump, for our present meal, and not burdening ourselves unnecessarily with more."... | |
 | Paul Kane - 1859 - 546 頁
...whole of the three days that it took us to reach Edmonton House, we saw nothing else but these animals covering the plains as far as the eye could reach,...suffocation. We killed one whenever we required a suppty of food, selecting the fattest of the cows, taking only the tongues and boss, or hump, for our... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1861 - 630 頁
...whole of the thrt*; days that it took us to reach Edmonton House we saw nothing else but these animals covering the plains as far as the eye could reach...filling the air with dust almost to suffocation.' The country in many places, he adds, presents the appearance of a park, the gently gently undulating... | |
 | Adam Shortt, Sir Arthur George Doughty - 1914 - 460 頁
...numbers of buffalo, and during the whole of three days' steady travelling, saw nothing but buffalo ' covering the plains as far as the eye could reach, and so numerous that at times they impeded his progress, filling the air with dust almost to suffocation.' After a... | |
 | Ruth Kedzie Wood - 1916 - 622 頁
...approaching Edmonton, saw the buffalo in " immense numbers ... we saw nothing else but these animals covering the plains as far as the eye could reach,...filling the air with dust almost to suffocation." 9 • These we're not the progenitors of the thousand head of buffalo, "the largest herd in the world,"... | |
 | Diane F. Eaton, Sheila Urbanek - 1995 - 180 頁
...days that it took us to reach Edmonton House,' Kane writes, 'we saw nothing else but these animals covering the plains as far as the eye could reach,...not burdening ourselves unnecessarily with more.' On the second day out from Fort Pitt they came to Long Grass Prairie, once the encampment of a band... | |
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