The Library of American Biography, Volume 14C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1847 - United States |
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... hundred yards from Fort Griswold , so well known in the history of the American revolution . His grandfather , named also John Ledyard , came in early life to America , and settled at Southold , Long Island , as a small trader in.
... hundred yards from Fort Griswold , so well known in the history of the American revolution . His grandfather , named also John Ledyard , came in early life to America , and settled at Southold , Long Island , as a small trader in.
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... hundred pounds , and sev- eral gentlemen one hundred each . The mon- ey was deposited in the hands of trustees in England , and drawn out as occasion required . With this addition to his resources , Dr. Whee- lock began to think of ...
... hundred pounds , and sev- eral gentlemen one hundred each . The mon- ey was deposited in the hands of trustees in England , and drawn out as occasion required . With this addition to his resources , Dr. Whee- lock began to think of ...
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... hundred and forty miles , much of the way was through a wilderness , and in several places there were dangerous falls and rapids . With a bearskin for a covering , and his canoe well stocked with provisions , he yielded himself to the ...
... hundred and forty miles , much of the way was through a wilderness , and in several places there were dangerous falls and rapids . With a bearskin for a covering , and his canoe well stocked with provisions , he yielded himself to the ...
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... or strait , nearly one hundred miles broad , and contain- ing many small islands . It is remarkable , that no resemblance has been discovered between the language of the natives here and that spoken by JOHN LEDYARD . 61.
... or strait , nearly one hundred miles broad , and contain- ing many small islands . It is remarkable , that no resemblance has been discovered between the language of the natives here and that spoken by JOHN LEDYARD . 61.
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... hundred miles distant from New Zealand . Head winds and boisterous weather forced them out of their course ; grass and water for the cattle , as well as fresh provisions for the men , began to fail ; and it was thought best to bear away ...
... hundred miles distant from New Zealand . Head winds and boisterous weather forced them out of their course ; grass and water for the cattle , as well as fresh provisions for the men , began to fail ; and it was thought best to bear away ...
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Page 383 - So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er unhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns.
Page 340 - With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and...
Page 93 - I had no sooner beheld these Americans, than I set them down for the same kind of people, that inhabit the opposite side of the continent.
Page 372 - I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Page 192 - I have been so much the sport of accident," said he, "that I am exceedingly suspicious. It is true, that in this L'Orient negotiation, I have guarded every avenue to future disappointment, with all possible caution; yet this head I wear, is so much a dupe to my heart, and at other times my heart is so bewildered by my head, that in matters of business I have not much confidence in either.
Page 141 - On the thirteenth, at night, the Discovery's large cutter, which was at her usual moorings at the bower buoy, was taken away. On the fourteenth the captains met to consult what should be done on this alarming occasion ; and the issue of their opinions was, that one of the two captains should land with armed boats and a guard of marines at Kiverua, and attempt to persuade Teraiobu, who was then at his house in that town, to come on board upon a visit, and that when he was on board he should be kept...
Page 146 - ... while he was doing this, a chief from behind stabbed him with one of our iron daggers, just under the shoulder-blade, and it passed quite through his body. Cook fell with his face in the water, and immediately expired.
Page 144 - ... one that should oppose him. Cook, perceiving this, fired a ball, which entering the Indian's groin, he fell and was drawn off by the rest. " Cook, perceiving the people determined to oppose his designs, and that he should not succeed without further bloodshed, ordered the lieutenant of marines, Mr.
Page 97 - We purchased while here about 1500 beaver, besides other skins, but took none but the best, having no thoughts at that time of using them to any other advantage than converting them to the purposes of cloathing, but it afterwards happened that skins which did not cost the purchaser six-pence sterling sold in China for 100 dollars.
Page 341 - Russia, and the wide spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry, ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.