New Colorado and the Santa Fé TrailC. Kegan Paul, 1881 - 200 pages |
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Page 39 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 97 - The trees of the LORD also are full of sap ; even the cedars of Libanus, which he hath planted ; 17 Wherein the birds make their nests ; and the fir-trees are a dwelling for the stork. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats ; and so are the stony rocks for the conies.
Page 77 - Now I hold it is not decent for a scientific gent To say another is an ass — at least, to all intent ; Nor should the individual who happens to be meant Reply by heaving rocks at him to any great extent.
Page 142 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
Page 140 - ordeal' they had to pass, they had spent the previous morning in 'rubbing up;' and now they were prepared, with clean faces, sleek combed hair, and their choicest Sunday suit, to meet the 'fair eyes' of glistening black that were sure to stare at them as they passed. There was yet another preparation to be made in order to 'show off
Page 139 - The arrival produced a great deal of bustle and excitement among the natives. "Los Americanos !" — "Los carros!" — "La entrada de la caravana!" were to be heard in every direction; and crowds of women and boys flocked around to see the newcomers ; while crowds of leperos hung about as usual to see what they could pilfer. The wagoners were by no means free from excitement on this occasion. Informed of the "ordeal...
Page 138 - The novices were not a little discouraged at these frequent inroads of the enemy, although it is very seldom that any lives are lost in encounters with them. In the course of twenty years since the commencement of this trade, I do not believe there have been a dozen deaths upon the Santa Fe route, even including those who have been killed off by disease, as well as by the Indians.
Page 138 - It was truly a scene for the artist's pencil to revel in. Even the animals seemed to participate in the humor of their riders, who grew more and more merry and obstreperous as they descended towards the city. I doubt, in short, whether the first sight of the walls of Jerusalem were beheld by the crusaders with much more tumultuous and soul-enrapturing joy. The arrival produced a great deal of bustle and excitement among the natives. "Los Americanos !
Page 86 - ... when he sees you in overalls which will not meet in front, and are precariously tied with a ragged string, an ancient flannel shirt, the sleeves of which hang in tatters around your wristbands, and a cap which might have come over in the Mayflower, and has a smoky lamp hooked into its fast decomposing visor. As you approach the mouth of the shaft the engineer genially remarks that there
Page 151 - And if any further humanizing influence were wanted by the pilgrim on the old trail, he found it in the gathering of cultured ladies and gentlemen who had not heard Pinafore, but who could and did sing it on the far Arkansas. Then, not very much farther on, we went down to the bank of the river to get a sketch of Bent's Fort — a famed post In the old days. The main structure was one hundred and eighty by one hundred and thirty-five feet, and the walls were fifteen feet high and four feet thick....