St. Louis: The Fourth City, 1764-1911, Volumen1S. J. Clarke publishing Company, 1911 |
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Página 392 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Página 143 - To enterprising young men. The subscriber wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri river to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years.
Página 300 - ... •This region, however, viewed as a frontier, may prove of infinite importance to the United States, inasmuch as it is calculated to serve as a barrier to prevent too great an extension of our population westward...
Página 300 - States territory is limited in that direction, is throughout, of a similar character. The whole of this region seems peculiarly adapted as a range for buffaloes, wild goats, and other wild game, incalculable multitudes of which find ample pasturage and subsistence upon it.
Página 300 - In regard to this extensive section of country we do not hesitate in giving the opinion, that it is almost wholly unfit for cultivation and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.
Página 122 - Genesis ; and then you will find them both good : the one good to eat, the other good to drink. The land is very nourishing, the water is thoroughly wholesome. The one appeases hunger; the other, thirst. But the natives do not take them separately, but together, as nature mixed them. When they find an inch of mud in the bottom of a glass, they stir it up, and then take the draught as they would gruel. It is difficult for a stranger to get used to this batter, but once used to it he will prefer it...
Página 295 - I was in hopes that the British traders had some bounds to their rapacity — I was in hopes that during the late Indian War, in which they were so instrumental in the indiscriminate massacre of our people, they had become completely satiated with our blood, but it appears not to have been the case.
Página 136 - We send greeting to all mankind! Be it known unto all nations, that the most ancient, most illustrious, and most numerous tribes of the redskins, lords of the soil from the banks of the great waters unto the tops of the mountains...
Página 293 - What is past and cannot be prevented should not be grieved for. Be not discouraged or displeased then, that in visiting your father here you have lost your chief. A misfortune of this kind may never again befall you, but this would have attended you perhaps at your own village. Five times have I visited this land, and never returned with sorrow or pain.
Página 283 - English — these dogs dressed in red who have come to rob you of your hunting grounds, and drive away the game — you must lift the hatchet against them.