 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pages
...scene being circumscribed by impenetrable darkness, except that in front, where every leaf is strongly defined, and deeply shaded. In the morning I hunted...baggage, I believe I should have ventured to swim the river. I vented my indignation on the owner of the boat, who is a half-breed, threatening to publish... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - 576 pages
...scene being circumscribed by impenetrable darkness, except that in front, where every leaf is strongly defined, and .deeply shaded. In the morning, I hunted until about six, when I again renewed my shouting for the boat, and it was not until it was near eleven that it made its appearance. I was so... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1844 - 558 pages
...that in front, where every leaf is strongly defined, and deeply shaded. In the morning I hunted until six, when I again renewed my shoutings for the boat,...eleven that it made its appearance. I was so enraged at the delay, that, had I not been cumbered with baggage, I helieve I should have ventured to swim the... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1860 - 404 pages
...scene being circumscribed by impenetrable darkness, except that in front, where every leaf is strongly defined and deeply shaded. In the morning I hunted...not until near eleven that it made its appearance. * * * A profusion of flowers, altogether new to me, and some of them very elegant, presented themselves... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 pages
...scene being circumscribed by impenetrable darkness, except that in front, where every leaf is strongly defined and deeply shaded. In the morning I hunted...not until near eleven that it made its appearance. * * The country now assumed a new appearance ; no brush wood — no fallen or rotten timber : one could... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 408 pages
...scene being circumscribed by impenetrable darkness except that in front, where every leaf is strongly defined and deeply shaded. In the morning, I hunted...baggage, I believe I should have ventured to swim the river. I vented my indignation on the owner of the boat, who is a half-breed, threatening to publish... | |
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... night to recruit my fire, and see how my horse did; and, but for the gnats, would have slept tolerably well. These gigantic woods have a singular effect by the light of a large fire; the whole scene being circumscribed by impenetrable darkness, except... 