 | John Frost - United States - 1854 - 775 pages
...to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into...water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1854 - 526 pages
...that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against tho pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of tho raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...Washington and Mr. Gist journeying through the Snow. so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 pages
...pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water. But I 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, as we were near an island, to quit our raft, and make to... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 422 pages
...to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into...; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 pages
...try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with such violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into...water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - Indians of North America - 1857 - 1038 pages
...to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into...; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1860 - 274 pages
...to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into...water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | Morrison Heady - Children - 1864 - 336 pages
...and stop the raft, that the ice might pass by; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet of water : but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Neville B. Craig - Local history - 1876 - 608 pages
...to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into...; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
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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 it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water: but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of... 
