 | Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1857 - 274 pages
...we saw in the sand the print of the savage's feet of two or three sorts trodden in the night ; and, as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a tree, in the...thereof were curiously carved these fair Roman letters, CBO, which letters presently we knew to signify the place, where I should find the planters seated,... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Explorers - 1868 - 666 pages
...saw in the sand the print of the savages' feet of two or three sorts trodden the night before ; and, as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a tree, in the very brow thereof, were curiously carved the fair Roman letters CR tJ Which letters presently we knew to signify the place where I should find... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1876 - 952 pages
...entered up a sandy bank, upon a tree near the very brow thereof was curiously carved in fair Romaine letters ' Cro,' which letters presently we knew to...seated, according to a secret token agreed upon between these men and me at my last departure from them, which was that, in any ways, they should not fail... | |
 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - Engineering - 1876 - 898 pages
...the very brow thereof was curiously carved in fair Romaine letters ' Cro/ which letters present!}' we knew to signify the place where I should find the...seated, according to a secret token agreed upon between these men and me at my last departure from them, which was that, in any ways, they should not fail... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1876 - 920 pages
...enteret up a sandy bank, upon a tree near the very brow thereof was curiously carved in fai Romaine letters ' Cro,' which letters presently we knew to signify the place where should find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed upon between thes men and me at... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Explorers - 1877 - 446 pages
...saw in the sand the print of the savages' feet, of two or three sorts, trodden [in] the night ; and as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a tree, in the...signify the place where I should find the planters THE EXPLORERS LOOKING AT THE TREE. seated ; according to a secret token agreed upon between them and... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 pages
...print of the savages' feet trodden that night ; and as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a tree at the very brow thereof were curiously carved these...I should find the planters seated, according to a token agreed upon at my departure." He had told them in case of distress to carve over the letters... | |
 | Hamilton McMillan - Lumbee Indians - 1888 - 50 pages
...we saw in the sand the jjrint of the savage's feet of two or three sorts trodden in the night, and as we entered up the sandy bank, upon a tree in the...thereof, were curiously carved these fair Roman letters, CR O , which letters presenty we knew to signify the place where I should find the planters seated,... | |
 | Richard Hakluyt - America - 1889 - 734 pages
...thereof were curiously carued these faire Romane letters CRO : which letters presently we knew to sigmfie the place, where I should find the planters seated, according to a secret token agreed vpon betweene them and me at my last departure from them, which was, that in any wayes they should... | |
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... 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... 
