 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 422 pages
...very much diminished, yet the white bear is still a terrible animal. On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired and each wounded...badly wounded he could not run so fast as to prevent liini from reloading his piece, which he again ainu-d at him, and a third shot from the hunter brought... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1817 - 860 pages
...very much diminished, yet the white bear is still a terrible animal. On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired and each wounded...made his escape ; the other turned upon Captain Lewis aud pursued him seventy or eighty yards, but being badly wounded he could not run so fast as to prevent... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1843 - 400 pages
...is very much diminished, the white bear is still a terrible animal. On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired, and each wounded...the other turned upon Captain Lewis, and pursued him for seventy or eighty yards ; but, being badly wounded, he could not run so fast as to prevent him... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1847 - 398 pages
...is very much diminished, the white bear is still a terrible animal. On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired, and each wounded...the other turned upon Captain Lewis, and pursued him for seventy or eighty yards ; but, being badly wounded, he could not run so fast as to prevent him... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1861 - 392 pages
...is very much diminished, the white bear is still a terrible animal. On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired, and each wounded...the other turned upon Captain Lewis, and pursued him for seventy or eighty yards ; but, being badly wounded, he could not run so fast as to prevent him... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, Elliott Coues - Columbia River - 1893 - 506 pages
...very much diminished, yet the white bear is still a terrible animal. On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired, and each wounded...escape ; the other turned upon Captain * Lewis and Clark will have it that these bears are "white " — and the countless repetitions in the books, of... | |
 | Birds - 1924 - 1084 pages
...very much diminished, yet the white bear Is still a terrible animal. On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired, and each wounded...the other turned upon Captain Lewis and pursued him 70 or 80 yards, but being badly wounded the bear could not run so fast as to prevent him from reloading... | |
 | Ripley Hitchcock - Louisiana Purchase - 1904 - 424 pages
...encountered two of the formidable grizzly bears of which the Indians had given dreadful accounts. Both men " fired, and each wounded a bear ; one of them made...him seventy or eighty yards, but being badly wounded could not run so fast as to prevent him from reloading his piece, which he again aimed at the bear,... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - Americana - 1904 - 428 pages
...mortal, they frequently fall a sacrifice if they miss their aim. . . . On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired and each wounded...seventy or eighty yards, but being badly wounded he [the beast] could not run so fast as to prevent him [Lewis] from reloading his piece, which he again... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1905 - 380 pages
...danger is much diminished, yet the white bear is still a terrible animal. On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired, and each wounded...One of them made his escape; the other turned upon Lewis and pursued him seventy or eighty yards, but being badly wounded the bear could not run so fast... | |
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On approaching these two, both Captain Lewis and the hunter fired, and each wounded a bear. One of them made his escape; the other turned upon Captain Lewis and pursued him seventy or eighty yards, but being badly wounded... 
