 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 898 pages
...the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had wellnigh all disappeared. Bread had...tallow; and, as we had not dried this with Indian skill, part of it was spoiled; and what remained of good, was as hard as wood, having much the taste and appearance... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - Botany - 1843 - 244 pages
...exhausted by the hardships arid privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had well nigh all disappeared. Bread had been long out of the question,...or three pounds of coffee, and a small quantity of macaroni, which had been husbanded with great care for the mountain expedition we were about to undertake.... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 286 pages
...the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had wellnigh all disappeared. Bread had...; and, as we had not dried this with Indian skill, part of it was spoiled ; and what remained of good, was as hard as wood, having much the taste and... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - America - 1840 - 290 pages
...the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had wellnigh all disappeared. Bread had...of dry buffalo meat, cooked in tallow ; and, as we fTad not dried this with Indian skill, part of it was spoiled ; and what remained of good, was as hard... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - America - 1847 - 446 pages
...the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had wellnigh all disappeared. Bread had...or three pounds of coffee, and a small quantity of macaroni, which had been husbanded with great care for the mountain expedition we were about to undertake.... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - California - 1849 - 478 pages
...the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had wellnigh all disappeared. Bread had...or three pounds of coffee, and a small quantity of macaroni, which had been husbanded with great care for the mountain expedition we were about to undertake.... | |
 | John Charles Frémont - Discoveries in geography - 1850 - 472 pages
...the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had wellnigh all disappeared. Bread had...or three pounds of coffee, and a small quantity of macaroni, which had been husbanded with great care for the mountain expedition we were about to undertake.... | |
 | John Charles Frémont, Samuel Mosheim Smucker - History - 1856 - 536 pages
...the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions .had wellnigh all disappeared. Bread had...or three pounds of coffee, and a small quantity of macaroni, which had been husbanded with great care for the mountain expedition we were about to undertake.... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Explorers - 1856 - 428 pages
...exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had wellnigh ah1 disappeared. Bread had been long out of the question...or three pounds of coffee, and a small quantity of macaroni, which had been husbanded with great care for the mountain expedition we were about to undertake.... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Explorers - 1856 - 408 pages
...the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which they had been subjected. Our provisions had wellnigh all disappeared. Bread had been long out of the question ; and of aU our stock, we had remaining two or three pounds of coffee, and a small quantity of macaroni, which... | |
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... though it does not appear in the course of the narrative, (as I have avoided dwelling upon trifling incidents not connected with the objects of the expedition,) the spirits of the men had been much exhausted by the hardships and privations to which... 
