 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 460 pages
...nearly three feet in diameter, had been gnawed through by them. Monday, 29. We proceeded early with a moderate wind : Captain Lewis, who was on shore with...are often defeated with the loss of one or more of their number. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 422 pages
...nearly three feet in diameter, had been gnawed through by them. Monday, 29. We proceeded early with a moderate wind : Captain Lewis, who was on shore with...and even then are often defeated with the loss of oue or more of their number. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Science - 1815 - 616 pages
...mortal ; and they have even escaped after being shot in several places through the body. The Indians never attack him but in parties of six or eight persons,...defeated with the loss of one or more of the party ; and when they go in quest of him, paint themselves, and perform all the superstitious rites customary... | |
 | DeWitt Clinton, Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York (New York, N.Y.) - Ecology - 1815 - 160 pages
...even escaped after heing aliot in several places through the hody. The Indians never attack him hut in parties of six or eight persons, and even then...defeated with the loss of one or more of the party ; and when they gq in quest of him, paint themselves, and perform all the superstitious rites customary... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...intelligence which the other half may poises«. NATURAL HISTORY. WHITE BEAR. (From Lewis and Clarke's Travek.) OF the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians...are often defeated with the loss of one or more of their number. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 860 pages
...the other half may possess. NATURAL NATURAL HISTORY. WHITl BtAlt. (From Levit and Clarke's Travels.) OF the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians...are often defeated with the loss of one or more of their number. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply... | |
 | 1823 - 496 pages
...obstinacy, that even the natives of the country never venture to attack them but in parties of eight or ten, and even then are often defeated with the loss of one or more of their number. Though to a skilful rifleman the danger is very much diminished, the bear is still an... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1821 - 494 pages
...obstinacy, that even the natives of the country never venture to attack them but in parties of eight or ten, and even then are often defeated with the loss of one or more of their number. Though to a skilful rifleman the danger is very much diminished, thel>ear is still an... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Zoology - 1827 - 670 pages
...Ferox. " On one occasion, Captain Lewis, who was on shore with a hunter, met two White Bears. He says, " of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians...are often defeated, with the loss of one or more of their number. " Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply... | |
 | William Adams (M.A.) - Voyages and travels - 1832 - 516 pages
...Indian Game — Saddle — Salt, £c. OF the strength and ferocity of the white bear, the Indians give dreadful accounts ; they never attack him but in parties of six or ei^ht persons, and even then are often defeated with the loss of one or more of their number. Having... | |
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Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians had given us dreadful accounts : they never attack him but in parties of six or eight persons, and even... 
