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Image from page 391 of “Wyoming, its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures” (1868) Image by Internet Archive Book Images Identifier: wyomingitshistor00peck Title: Wyoming, its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures Year: 1868 (1860s) Authors: Peck, George, 1797-1876 Subjects: Wyoming Massacre, 1778 Wyoming Valley (Pa.) — History Publisher: New York : Harper Contributing Library: New …

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Title: Wyoming, its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Peck, George, 1797-1876
Subjects: Wyoming Massacre, 1778 Wyoming Valley (Pa.) — History
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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Association. The namesof the officers and committee were as follows: Mrs.Chester Butler, President; Mrs. Gr. M. Hollenback andMrs. E. Carey, Vice-presidents ; Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Nich-olson, Mrs. Hollenback, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Boss, Mrs.Cunningham, Mrs. Beaumont, Mrs. Drake, Mrs. Ben-net, Mrs. Carey, Executive Committee ; Miss Emily Cist,Treasurer ; Miss Gertrude Butler, Secretary; Mrs. Don-ley, Mrs. L. Butler, Corre-sponding Committee. The ladies solicited do-nations, held fairs, and, bydint of zeal and persever-ance, succeeded in raisingthe funds for the erectionot a monument at once ofthe patriotic deeds of theirfathers and of their ownpower. The monument isconstructed of granite, andis sixty-two and a half feetin height. On three mar-ble slabs are engraved thefoliowing inscriptions. On the front slab, composed by Edward Mallory,Esq., is the following: Near tliis spot was fought, on the afternoon of the 8d of July, 1778,the Battle of Wyoming, in -which a small band of patriotic Ameri-

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THE MONUMENT. 386 cans, chiefly the undisciplined, the youthful, and the aged, spared byinefficiency from the distant ranks of the Republic, led by ColonelZebulon Butler and Colonel Nathan Denison, with a courage thatdeserved success, boldly met and bravely fought a combined Brit-ish, Tory, and Indian force of thrice their number. Numerical su-periority alone gave success to the invader, and widespread havoc,desolation, and ruin marked his savage and bloody footsteps throughthe Valley. This monument, commemorative of these events, and in memoryof the actors in them, has been erected over the bones of the slain bytheir descendants and others, who gratefully appreciate the servicesand sacrifices of their jjatriotic ancestors. On the other slabs the following: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Slain in the battle: Field-officers: Lieutenant Colonel GeorgeDorrance, Major John Garret. Captains: James Bidlack, Jun.,Aholiab Buck, Robert Durkee, Rezin Geer, Joseph Whittlesey, De-thic Hewi

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Image from page 234 of “Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..” (1889)

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Title: Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M. Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc. ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton), 1841-1904
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. Chicago, Ill. [etc.] National Publishing Company
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e pursued his way.A country once very populous was nearly deserted on account of con-tinuous raids by slave hunters. A hippopotamus was shot, and, at the end of three days, it floated.As the boat was towing it, immense numbers of crocodiles followed, andit was necessary to fire at them to keep them off. It is said that thecrocodile never eats fresh meat; indeed, the more putrid it becomes, thebetter he enjoys his repast, as he can thus tear the carcass more easily.The corpse of a boy was seen floating by. Several crocodiles dashed atit, fighting for their prey, and in a few seconds it disappeared. Sixty-seven of the repulsive reptiles were seen on one bank. The natives eatthe animal, but few who had witnessed the horrible food on which theybanquet would willingly feed on their flesh. Their former companion, Mr. Thornton, here rejoined them. Hearingthat the remaining members of the bishops party were in want at Chi-bisa, he volunteered to carry over a supply of goats and sheep to them.

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(215) 216 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. Overcome by the fatigues of the journey, he was attacked by fever, whichterminated fatally in April, 1863. The whole of the once pleasant Shire valley was now a scene of wide-spread desolation. Fearful famine had devastated it, and the sights whichmet their eye in every direction were heart-rending. The ground wasliterally covered with human bones. Many had ended their career underthe shade of trees, others under projecting crags of the hills, whileothers lay in their huts with closed doors, which, when opened, disclosedthe mouldering corpse with a few rags round the loins, the skull fallen off the pillow; the little skeleton of a child that had perished first, was rolledup in a mat between two large skeletons. Transporting the Boat Overland. Hoping that the Lady Nyassa might be the means of affordingrelief to sufferers across the lake, they hurried on with their work. Shewas unscrewed at a spot about five hundred yards below the first cataract,and th

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Image taken from page 309 of ‘The Land of Desolation, being a personal narrative of adventures in Greenland. [With illustrations.]’

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Title: "The Land of Desolation, being a personal narrative of adventures in Greenland. [With illustrations.]"
Author: HAYES, Isaac Israel.
Shelfmark: "British Library HMNTS 10460.pp.5."
Page: 309
Place of Publishing: London
Date of Publishing: 1871
Issuance: monographic
Identifier: 001625715

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