 | George Washington - 1927 - 442 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 the Raft to either Shore... | |
 | George Washington - Government publications - 1931 - 672 pages
...all-night march. a Gist's account describes this affair differently. 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 the Raft to either Shore;... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 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 the Raft to either Shore;... | |
 | Book collecting - 1899 - 674 pages
...prevent our being swept down the stream; but the rapidity of the current threw the raft with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, and I was like to have drowned. This wind and sleet seem warm when I remember that, and had... | |
 | John Richard Alden - 1984 - 356 pages
...the pole, that it jirk'd me into 10 feet water, but I fortunately saved my self by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get the raft to either shoar, but were oblig'd, as we were pretty near an island, to quit our raft & wade... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - Biography & Autobiography - 204 pages
...by, when the Rapidity of the Stream threw it with so much Violence against the Pole, that it jirked 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,... | |
 | Mary Mostert - Political Science - 2004 - 230 pages
...pole, that it jerked me out into 10 feet of 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... | |
 | Sterling North - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 188 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. They could not get across that night. But they did reach a barren island where... | |
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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... 
