| United States. Congress. House - United States - 898 pages
...climbing, threatening and lamenting. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...feast a large party, for it was a very proper place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration of such orgies as robbers of the desert would delight in.... | |
| John Charles Frémont - History - 1845 - 820 pages
...climbing, threatening and lamenting. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...feast a large party, for it was a very proper place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration of such orgies as robbers of the desert would delight in.... | |
| John Charles Frémont - America - 1840 - 290 pages
...climbing, threatening and lamenting. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...feast a large party, for it was a very proper place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration of such orgies as robbers of the desert would delight in.... | |
| John Charles Frémont - History - 1845 - 814 pages
...climbing, threatening and lamenting. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...agonies of the gory savage. They were now masters of the carnp, which was a pretty little recess in the mountain, with a fine spring, and apparently safe from... | |
| Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1846 - 372 pages
...skinned head, and tittered a hideous howl. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...from all invasion. Great preparations had been made for feasting a largo party, for it was a very proper place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration... | |
| John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...climbing, threatening and lamenting. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...feast a large party, for it was a very proper place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration of such orgies as robbers of the desert would delight in.... | |
| John Charles Frémont - Discoveries in geography - 1853 - 474 pages
...stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated the agonies ijf the gory savage. They were now masters of the camp,...proper place to rendezvous, and for the celebration of sueli orgies as robbers of the de.sert would delight in. Several of the best horses had been killed,... | |
| John Frost - Africa - 1854 - 574 pages
...climbing, threatening and lamenting. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...feast a large party, for it was a very proper place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration of such orgies as robbers of the desert would delight in.... | |
| Henry Howe - Mississippi River Valley - 1855 - 908 pages
...skinned head, and uttered a hideous howl. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...from all invasion. Great preparations had been made for feasting a large party, for it was a very proper place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - Explorers - 1856 - 408 pages
...climbing, threatening and lamenting. The frightful spectacle appalled the stout hearts of our men ; but they did what humanity required, and quickly terminated...feast a large party, for it was a very proper place for a rendezvous, and for the celebration of such orgies as robbers of the desert would delight in.... | |
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