 | 1815 - 558 pages
...wheu one of the hunters ou shore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through...they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp." Vol. I. p. 216, 217. They now passed the Muscle Shell River, which, the Indiana informed them, takes... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 422 pages
...directions ; the bear was old and the meat tough, so that they took the skin only, and rejoined us at the camp, where we had been as much terrified by an accident...papers, instruments, medicine, and almost every article indispensable for the success of our enterprize. The canoe being under sail, a sudden squall of wind... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through...they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp." Vol I. p. 216, 217. They now passed the Muscle Shell River, which, the Indians informed them, lakes... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 460 pages
...when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through...so that they took the skin only, and rejoined us at the camp, where we had been as much 296 terrified by an accident of a different kind. This was the... | |
 | 1815 - 628 pages
...when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in different directions ; thr bear was old and the meat tough, so that they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp." Vol.... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...one of the hunters on the chore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in: different directions.' In another instance one of these brown bears survived twenty minutes, and swam to a sand-bar in the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in different directions. BUFFALOB HUNTINO. ('From the samej On the north we passed a precipice about one hundred and twenty... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head and finally killed him : they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in different directions. BÜFFALOK HUNTING. (From the tamej On the north we passed a precipice about one hundred and twenty... | |
 | William Adams (M.A.) - Voyages and travels - 1832 - 516 pages
...when one of the hnnters on shore shot him in the head, and finally killed him; they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in different directions. A clear and connected view of the falls, cascades, and rapids of the Missouri, was now had from the... | |
 | William Adams - America - 1836 - 508 pages
...when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head, and finally killed him; they dragged him to the shore, and found that eight balls had passed through him in different directions. A clear and connected view of the falls, cascades, and rapids of the Missouri, was now had from the... | |
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... so closely that they threw aside their guns and .pouches and jumped down a perpendicular bank of twenty feet into the river ; the bear sprang after them, and was within a few feet of the hindmost when one of the hunters on shore shot him in the head... 
