Pioneers on Land and Sea: Stories of the Eastern States and of Ocean Explorers, Book 1 |
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... sailors , two Indians , and some gentlemen , they started the 18th of June to search for a better location for a settlement . Passing by Mount Desert and the mouth of the Penobscot , they reached the entrance to the Kennebec . They ...
... sailors , two Indians , and some gentlemen , they started the 18th of June to search for a better location for a settlement . Passing by Mount Desert and the mouth of the Penobscot , they reached the entrance to the Kennebec . They ...
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... sailors . When Hudson returned to England after these voyages , he found himself famous . He had been nearer the pole than any one else and had proved himself a very fine sea- man . The Dutch East India Company was anxious to secure his ...
... sailors . When Hudson returned to England after these voyages , he found himself famous . He had been nearer the pole than any one else and had proved himself a very fine sea- man . The Dutch East India Company was anxious to secure his ...
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... sailors were surprised at the force of the ocean current which we now call the Gulf Stream . On the 18th of July they arrived in Penobscot Bay , with the foremast gone and the sails much the worse for wear . Here they stopped for a week ...
... sailors were surprised at the force of the ocean current which we now call the Gulf Stream . On the 18th of July they arrived in Penobscot Bay , with the foremast gone and the sails much the worse for wear . Here they stopped for a week ...
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... sailors . He intended to start in March on a fresh search for the Northwest Passage . The directors of the Dutch East India Company asked him to come first to Holland . King James refused to let him go and the Half Moon was sent to ...
... sailors . He intended to start in March on a fresh search for the Northwest Passage . The directors of the Dutch East India Company asked him to come first to Holland . King James refused to let him go and the Half Moon was sent to ...
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... sailor expected to make . In time the ship entered the great inland sea known as Hudson Bay . Then winter came on and from Novem- ber , 1610 , to the following June , the ship was locked in ice at the southern end of James Bay . As soon ...
... sailor expected to make . In time the ship entered the great inland sea known as Hudson Bay . Then winter came on and from Novem- ber , 1610 , to the following June , the ship was locked in ice at the southern end of James Bay . As soon ...
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Page 248 - After taking Fort Duquesne," said he, "I am to proceed to Niagara; and having taken that, to Frontenac, if the season will allow time; and I suppose it will, for Duquesne can hardly detain me above three or four days; and then I see nothing that can obstruct my march to Niagara.
Page 244 - The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on the ice in the morning,* and went to Mr. Frazier's.
Page 248 - To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne, with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that place, not yet completely fortified and as we hear with no very strong garrison, can probably make but a short resistance.
Page 244 - There was no way for getting over but on a raft, which we set about with but one poor hatchet, and finished just after sun-setting. This was a whole day's work; we next got it launched, then went on board of it...
Page 237 - In the presence of others sing not to yourself with a humming noise, nor drum with your fingers or feet.
Page 44 - ... at once with bows and arrows in quest of game, who soon after brought in a pair of pigeons which they had shot. They likewise killed a fat dog, and skinned it in great haste, with shells which they had got out of the water.
Page 44 - Indian corn, and beans of last year's growth, and there lay near the house for the purpose of drying, enough to load three ships, besides what was growing in the fields. On our coming into the house, two mats were spread out to sit upon, and immediately some food was served in well...
Page 244 - I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it.
Page 94 - I desire, but only you, of whom I can have nothing but what you regard not. And yet you will have whatsoever you demand. Captain Newport you call father, and so you call me...
Page 62 - ... as we entered up the sandy bank upon a tree, in the very brow thereof were curiously carved these fair Roman letters CRO: which letters presently we knew to signify the place, where I should find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed upon between...