 | 1832 - 564 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw if with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately... | |
 | Edward Charles M'Guire - 1836 - 428 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-loga. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, as... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 654 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft would sink, and ourselves perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged,... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1837 - 660 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft would sink, and ourselves perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 632 pages
...manner, that we expected every moment our raft would sink, and ourselves perish. I put out my settingpole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 666 pages
...manner, that we expected every moment our raft would sink, and ourselves perish. I put out my settingpole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged,... | |
 | Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 pages
...expected even• moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try and stop the raft that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with such force against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself... | |
 | Andrew W. Patterson - 1843 - 328 pages
...manner, that we expected every moment our raft would sink, and ourselves perish. I put out my settingpole to try to 'stop the raft," that the ice might pass...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged,... | |
 | 1835 - 638 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream tbrew it with so much violence against the pule, that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1845 - 614 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft would sink, and ourselves perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by...hold of one of the raftlogs. Notwithstanding all our «fibrin, we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island, to... | |
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