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2 May 2018 by Alan

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)

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
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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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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1 February 2018 by Alan

Image from page 300 of “Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, ’51, ’52, and ’53” (1854)

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Title: Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, ’51, ’52, and ’53
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
Subjects: Joint Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) Indians of North America
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Company
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water and an abundance ofgrass, and there pitched our tents for the night. May 24:th. At six o clock we were off, keeping inthe valley and following the stream which led aroundthe western extremity of the mountain called Covayan.Our course still continuing south, we struck across anelevation, and entered the valley beyond, here coveredwith large cotton-wood trees. The road now continuedlevel; and after a ride of four hours, we reached Fron-teras. As we approached, men, women, and childrencame out to meet us, ours being the first Americanwagons that had ever been seen in the place. GeneralCarrasco met me as I alighted from my carriage, andtook me to his quarters. Fronteras was formerly a town of considerable im-portance. It was established about eighty years ago ARISPE. 265 as a presidio, or garrison, and at one time containedtwo thousand inhabitants. The view of this town froma distance is pleasing. It stands upon a point of tableland, which juts out into the valley like a promontory

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Fronteras, Sonora, in the sea. The church forms the prominent object inthe landscape, and its style is quite picturesque ; itseffect also is heightened by its somewhat ruined con-dition. Along the steep sides of the hill, the housesare placed, rising one above another, which makes theplace appear much larger than it really is. Once withinthe town, ones ideas of the picturesque are soon dissi-pated by the sight of its ruined adobe buildings ; thoughhe soon forgets the desolation around him in looking; 266 AGUA PRIETA TO upon the green fertile valley spread at his feet. Fron-teras, like most of the military colonies, fell into decay,chiefly from the neglect of the central government toproperly provide for the soldiery, in consequence ofwhich, the inhabitants were left without protectionfrom the attacks of the savages. To such an extent didthe place suffer from the incursions of the Apaches,who killed off the herdsmen, drove the cultivators fromthe fields, and took captive the women and

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27 August 2017 by Alan

Image from page 77 of “Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, ’54, ’55” (1856) – Valley Of Desolation

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Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
Subjects: Grinnell Expedition 1853-1855)
Publisher: Philadelphia, Childs & Peterson [etc., etc.]
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with our anchors planted in a berg. In one of the attempts which I made with my boatto detect some pathway or outlet for the brig, I cameupon a long rocky ledge, with a sloping terrace on itssouthern face, strangely green with sedges and poppies.I had learned to refer these unusual traces of vegeta-tion to the fertilizing action of the refuse which gathersabout the habitations of men. Yet I was startled, as Twalked round its narrow and dreary limits, to find anEsquimaux hut, so perfect in its preservation that afew hours labor would have rendered it habitable.There were bones of the walrus, fox, and seal, scatteredround it in small quantities; a dead dog was foundclose by, with the flesh still on his bones; and, a littlefarther off, a bear-skin garment that retained its fur.In fact, for a deserted homestead, the scene had solittle of the air of desolation about it that it cheeredmy good fellows perceptibly. The scenery beyond, upon the main shore, might 60 E S Q U 1 M A U X 11 U T S.

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ESQUIMAUX HUT, have impressed men whose thoughts were not (Other-wise absorbed. An opening through the cliffs ot traprock disclosed a valley slope and distant rolling hills,—in fine contrast with the black precipices in front,—and a stream that came tumbling through the gorge :we could hear its pastoral music even on board thebrig, when the ice clamor intermitted. The water around was so shoal that at three hun-dred yards from the shore w^e had but twelve-feetsoundings at low tide. Great rocks, well worn androunded, that must have been floated out by the ice atsome former period, rose above the Avater at a halfmiles distance, and the inner drift had fastened itselfabout them in fantastic shapes. The bergs, too, wereaground well out to seaward; and the cape ahead wascompletely packed with the ice which they hemmed PETER FORCE BAT. 61 in. Tied up as we were to our own berg, we were forthe time in safety, though making no progress; but tocast loose and tear out into the pack was to r

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