The Life of Kit Carson: The Great Western Hunter and GuideA.L. Burt, 1902 - 376 頁 |
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abundant American Angeles animals arrived band beautiful beaver Bent's Fort Blackfeet boat brave buffalo California camp cañon Captain CHAPTER Christopher Carson Colonel Fremont Comanches command commenced Commodore courage coureurs des bois course despatched distance encamped Ewing Young expedition exploration feet fire Fort Laramie friends furs Godey grass Green River grizzly bear ground herd hills horses hundred hunter hunting Indians joined journey Kearney killed Kit Carson lake Laramie Lieutenant Lieutenant Beale Maxwell Mexican Mexico miles mission Missouri Monterey morning moun mountains mules nearly night party passed plain Platte prairie reached ridge rifle road Rocky rode Sacramento saddle Santa Santa Fe sent shot side Sierra Sierra Nevada snow soon spot spring stream Sutter's Fort tains Taos thousand tion Tlamath trade trail trappers trapping traveled tribe valley village whole wild wind
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第 179 頁 - We were now entering a region which, for us, possessed a strange and extraordinary interest. We were upon the waters of the famous lake which forms a salient point among the remarkable geographical features of the country, and around which the vague and superstitious accounts of the trappers had thrown...
第 182 頁 - ... maintained in a constant supply, its greatest height is attained only at regular intervals, according to the action of the force below. It is accompanied by a subterranean noise, which, together with the motion of the water, makes very much the impression of a steamboat in motion ; and, without knowing that it had been already previously so called, we gave to it the name of the Steamboat spring. The rock through which it is forced is slightly raised in a convex manner, and gathered at the opening...
第 189 頁 - ... day before us for our adventure. The channel in a short distance became so shallow that our navigation was at an end, being merely a sheet of soft mud, with a few inches of water, and sometimes none at all, forming the low-water shore of the lake. All this place was absolutely covered with flocks of screaming plover. We took off...
第 155 頁 - 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...
第 195 頁 - ... was blowing a strong gale of wind, almost directly off the shore, and raising a considerable sea, in which our boat strained very much. It roughened as we got away from the island, and it required all the efforts of the men to make any head against the wind and sea, the gale rising with the sun ; and there was danger of being blown into one of the open reaches beyond the island. At the distance of half a mile from the beach, the depth of...
第 227 頁 - We had hard and doubtful labor yet before us, as the snow appeared to be heavier where the timber began further down, with few open spots. Ascending a height, we traced out the best line we could discover for the next day's march, and had at least the consolation to see that the mountain descended rapidly. The day had been one of April; gusty, with a few occasional flakes of snow; which, in the afternoon, enveloped the upper mountain in clouds. We watched them anxiously, as now we dreaded a snow-storm.
第 213 頁 - From their descriptions, we were enabled to judge that we had encamped on the upper water of the Salmon Trout river. It is hardly necessary to say that our communication was only by signs, as we understood nothing of their language ; but they spoke, notwithstanding, rapidly and vehemently, explaining what they considered the folly of our intentions, and urging us to go down to the lake. Tah-ve, a word signifying snow, we very soon learned to know, from its frequent repetition.
第 188 頁 - In the course of the morning we discovered that two of the cylinders leaked so much as to require one man constantly at the bellows, to keep them sufficiently full of air to support the boat.
第 211 頁 - The waves were curling in the breeze, and their dark- green color showed it to be a body of deep water. For a long time we sat enjoying the view, for we had become fatigued with mountains, and the free expanse of moving waves was very grateful. It was set like a gem in the mountains, which, from our position, seemed to enclose it almost entirely.
第 183 頁 - It is a hot spring, and the water has a pungent and disagreeable metallic taste, leaving a burning effect on the tongue. Within perhaps two yards of the jetd'eau is a small hole of about an inch in diameter, through which, at regular intervals, escapes a blast of hot air, with a light wreath of smoke, accompanied by a regular noise.