The RecreationJohn Menzies, 1847 |
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animal appeared Arguin arms arrived ascended beach boat buffalo Captain castagnettes cataract Chamonix CHATHAM ISLAND close Col du Géant colour command commenced Courmayeur covered crevasses crew danger dark dervish door dress English entered escape eyes fall feet fire fish followed foot formed gave glacier guides hand Hanea head heard horses hour hundred Illanun Indians inhabitants instant island Jolly Bachelor Lady Hester Stanhope land length look Loustaunau Mahratta ment miles Mont Blanc morning mountain mouth natives nearly never night Northwood o'clock overboard palace party Páshá passage passed peak piece Prince quagga reached river rocks rope round scene seemed sextant ship shore side sight snow soon stream suddenly summit Tahiti tion took torches trees turned valley vessel wall Wetterhorn whale wild wind wounded yards
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157 페이지 - ... places, seemed almost to meet overhead, the roar of the water was deafening. We pushed off again ; but, after making a little distance, the force of the current became too great for the men on shore, and two of them let go the rope. Lajeunesse, the third man, hung on, and was jerked headforemost into the river from a rock about twelve feet high ; and down the boat shot like an arrow, Basil following us in the rapid current, and exerting all his strength to keep in mid channel — his head only...
144 페이지 - It was too fine a prospect for a chase to be lost ; and, halting for a few moments, the hunters were brought up and saddled, and Kit Carson, Maxwell, and I, started together. They were now somewhat less than half a mile distant, and we rode easily along until within about three hundred yards, when a sudden agitation, a wavering in the band, and...
150 페이지 - We managed to get our mules up to a little bench about a hundred feet above the lakes, where there was a patch of good grass, and turned them loose to graze. During our rough ride to this place, they had exhibited a wonderful surefootedness. Parts of the defile were filled with angular, sharp fragments of rock, — three or four and eight or ten feet cube, — and among these they had worked their way, leaping from one narrow point to another, rarely making a false step, and giving us no occasion...
151 페이지 - I had worn a pair of thick moccasins, with soles of parfleche, but here I put on a light, thin pair, which I had brought for the purpose, as now the use of our toes became necessary to a further advance. I availed myself of a sort of comb of the mountain, which stood against the wall like a buttress, and which the wind and the solar radiation, joined to the steepness of the smooth rock, had kept almost entirely free from snow. Up this I made my way rapidly. Our cautious method of...
151 페이지 - As soon as I had gratified the first feelings of curiosity, I descended, and each man ascended in his turn ; for I would only allow one at a time to mount the unstable and precarious slab, which it seemed a breath would hurl into the abyss below.
153 페이지 - The ridge was of the same decomposing granite already mentioned, and the water had worked the surface, in many places, into a wavy surface of ridges and holes. We ascended the rocks to reconnoitre the ground, and from the summit the passage appeared to be a continued cataract foaming over many obstructions, and broken by a number of small falls. We saw nowhere a fall answering to that which had been described to us as having twenty or...
154 페이지 - ... to be the place in question, as, in the season of floods, the rush of the river against the wall would produce a great rise, and the waters, reflected squarely off, would descend through the passage in a sheet of foam, having every appearance of a large fall. Eighteen years previous to this time, as I have subsequently learned from himself, Mr. Fitzpatrick, somewhere above on this river, had embarked with a valuable cargo of beaver. Unacquainted with the stream, which he believed would conduct...
147 페이지 - ... in order to avoid raising the herd. We therefore unsaddled our horses and sat down on the bank to view the scene; and our new acquaintances rode a few hundred yards lower down and began crossing the river. Scores of wild-looking dogs followed, looking like troops...
144 페이지 - ... fight. In a few moments, however, during which we had been quickening our pace, the rout was universal, and we were going over the ground like a hurricane. When at about thirty yards, we gave the usual shout, (the hunter's pas de charge,) and broke into the herd.
158 페이지 - Descoteaux had caught and clung to with drowning tenacity. The men continued down the river on the left bank. Mr. Preuss and myself descended on the side we were on ; and Lajeunesse, with a paddle in his hand, jumped on the boat alone, and continued down the canon. She was now light, und cleared every bad place with much less difficulty.