 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1903 - 580 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...papers, instruments, medicine, and almost every article indispensable for the success of our enterprise. The canoe being under sail, a sudden squall of wind... | |
 | California - 1903 - 178 pages
...shore shot the beast in the head and finally killed him. They dragged him to the shore, and foun<l that eight balls had passed through him in different...they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp." * Here, under date of May 29, 1804, we read: "May 29. Last night we were alarmed by a new sort of enemy.... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - Americana - 1904 - 428 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. At camp . . . we had been as much terrified by an accident of a different kind. This was the narrow... | |
 | William Henry Wright - Bear hunting - 1909 - 346 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...the meat tough, so that they took the skin only." May 22, 1805. "We have not seen in this quarter [since passing the Muscle Shell] the black bear common... | |
 | James Willard Schultz - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1918 - 276 pages
...the meat tough, so that the hunters took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp, where we had been much terrified by an accident of a different kind. This was the narrow escape of one of the canoes, containing all of our papers, instruments, medicine, and almost every article indispensable... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - History - 1920 - 354 pages
...head and finally killed him. . . . An accident of a different nature on the same day was described : This was the narrow escape of one of our canoes, containing...papers, instruments, medicine, and almost every article indispensable for the success of our enterprise. The canoe being under sail, a sudden squall of wind... | |
 | Harr Wagner - California - 1924 - 284 pages
...threw aside their pouches and guns, and jumped down a perpendicular bank twenty feet into the river. tough, so that they took the skin only, and rejoined us at camp."* Here, under date of May 29, 1804, we read: "May 29. Last night we were alarmed by a new sort of enemy.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 862 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 direction*. BUFFAI.OK HUNTING. (From the samej On the north we passed a precipice about one hundred... | |
 | Science - 1977 - 340 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...the meat tough, so that they took the skin only." May 22, 1805. "We have not seen in this quarter [since passing the Muscle Shell] the black bear common... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1979 - 506 pages
...to the shore, and iound that eight balls had passed through him in diiIerent directions. The be;tr was old and the meat tough, so that they took the...where we had been as much terrified by an accident oi a diiIerent kind." This was the narrow escape oi one oi our canoes, containing all our papers, instruments,... | |
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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... 
