| Periodicals - 1841 - 272 pages
...appetites, let toose and not restrained. — The Lady's New Year's Gift. A BEE-HUNT IN THE FAR WEST. THE beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded...swarms the bees have overspread the far West within hut a moderate number of years. The Indians consider them the harbinger of the white man, as the buffalo... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...HUNT. BY WASHINOTON IEVlNO. THE beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded in bee trees ; that is to say, trees in the decayed trunks of which wild bees had established their hives. It is surprizing in what countless swarms the bees have overspread the far West, within but a moderate number... | |
| Washington Irving - Authors, American - 1849 - 394 pages
...himself almost as much as upon his hunting, his riding, and his warlike prowess. CHAPTER IX. A BEE HUNT. THE beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded...but a moderate number of years. The Indians consider 3 them the harbinger of the white man, as the buffalo is of the red man ; and say that, in proportion... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1849 - 390 pages
...himself almost as much as upon his hunting, his riding, and his warlike prowess. CHAPTER IX. A BEE HUNT. THE beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded...but a moderate number of years. The Indians consider 3 them the harbinger of the white man. as the buffalo is of the red man'; and say that, in proportion... | |
| Washington Irving - Readers - 1849 - 278 pages
...like the shepherd of pastoral romance, a mere personification of imaginary attributes. A Bee Hunt. * THE beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded...in bee-trees ; that is to say, trees in the decayed tranks of which wild bees had established their hives. It is surprising in what countless swarms the... | |
| 1850 - 790 pages
...Natural History, A BEE-HUNT. THE beautiful forests in which we were encamped abounded in bee-trres; that is to say, trees in the decayed trunks of which...The Indians consider them the harbinger of the white roan, as the buffalo is of the red man; and say, that in proportion fis the bee advances, the Indian... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1855 - 268 pages
...like the shepherd of pastoral romance, a mere personification of imaginary attributes. A Bee Hunt. THE beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded...swarms the bees have overspread the Far West, within but^a moderate number of years. The Indians consider them the harbinger of the white man, as the buffalo... | |
| Washington Irving - American literature - 1861 - 384 pages
...himself almost as much as upon his hunting, his riding, and his warlike prowess. CHAPTEE IX. A BEE HUNT. THE beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded...harbinger of the white man, as the buffalo is of the rod man j and say that, in proportion as the bee advances, the Indian and buffalo retire. We are always... | |
| Bee culture - 1867 - 378 pages
...left unnoticed by him from October to May, and from May to October! A Ree Hunt. EY WASHINGTON IRVING. The beautiful forest in which we were encamped abounded...moderate number of years. The Indians consider them to be harbingers of the white man, as the buffalo is of the red man; and say that in proportion as... | |
| Adventure stories - 1861 - 296 pages
...A BEE-HUNT. ' The beautiful forest, in which we were encamped,' says he, ' abounded in bee trees ; that, is to say, trees in the decayed trunks of which...moderate number of years. The Indians consider them as the harbingers of the White Man, as the buffalo is of the Eed Man ; and say, that, as the Bee advances,... | |
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