| Mary Russell Mitford - 1832 - 360 páginas
...made his approaches in the usual noiseless manner. At the moment he reached the spot from which he meant to take his aim, he observed a large savage,...carcase those pieces suited to the process of jerking. In the mean time, the country was filling up with a white population ; and in a few years the red men,... | |
| Ben Casseday - 1852 - 310 páginas
...re-loaded his rifle and remained in covert some minutes to ascertain whether any more enemies were at hand. He then stepped up to the prostrate savage, and having satisfied himself that life was extinct, turned his attention to the buck, took from the carcass the pieces suited to jerking and retraced... | |
| A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 páginas
...the deer. Mike re-loaded his rifle, and remained some minutes, to ascertain whether there were any more enemies at hand. He then stepped up to the prostrate...turned his attention to the buck, and took from the carcass those pieces suited to the process of jerking. In the meantime, the country was filling up... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 páginas
...whether there were more enemies at hand. He then stepped up to the prostrate savage, and satisfying himself that life was extinguished, turned his attention to the buck, and took from the carcass those pieces suited to the process of jerking. In the mean time, the country was filling up... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1840 - 314 páginas
...the body of the savage, and at the moment the smoke issued from the gun of the latter, the bull et of Fink passed through the red man's breast. He uttered...they were unfitted for a settled occupation. Some o them joined the the Indians, others, and among them Mike FinkT enrolled themselves among the fraternity... | |
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