 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1847 - 398 pages
...moderate wind. Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal the Indians...are often defeated, with the loss of one or more of the party. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply them,... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1861 - 392 pages
...moderate wind. Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal the Indians...are often defeated, with the loss of one or more of the party. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply them,... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 494 pages
...the season, or with the time of life. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians give dreadful accounts. They never attack him but in parties...and, even then, are often defeated with the loss of some of the party. " May 18. — One of our men who bad been suffered to go ashore came running to... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, Elliott Coues - Columbia River - 1893 - 506 pages
...moderate wind. Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears." Of the strength and ferocity of this animal the Indians...us dreadful accounts. They never attack him but in patties of six or eight persons, and even then are often defeated with a loss of one or more of their... | |
 | Birds - 1924 - 1084 pages
...Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one of the hunters about 8 o'clock, met two white bears. He writes : Of the strength and ferocity of this animal the Indians...eight persons, and even then are often defeated with a loss of one or more of their party. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with... | |
 | Noah Brooks - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1901 - 436 pages
...Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met, about eight o'clock, two white [grizzly] bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal the Indians...eight persons, and even then are often defeated with a loss of one or more of their party. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1902 - 440 pages
...moderate wind : captain Lewis who was on shore with one hunter met about eight o'clock two white bears: of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians...are often defeated with the loss of one or more of the party. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply them,... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1903 - 580 pages
...moderate wind. Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal the Indians...are often defeated with the loss of one or more of the party. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply them,... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - Americana - 1904 - 428 pages
...reported : Captain Lewis, who was on shore with one hunter, met about eight o'clock two white bears. Of the strength and ferocity of this animal the Indians...are often defeated with the loss of one or more of the party. Having no weapons but bows and arrows, and the bad guns with which the traders supply them,... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1905 - 380 pages
...and ferocity of these animals the Indians had given us dreadful accounts. They never attack the bear but in parties of six or eight persons, and even then are often defeated with a loss of one or more of their party. Having no weapons but bows 46 * and arrows, and the bad guns... | |
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We proceeded early with a moderate wind." captain Lewis who was on shore with one hunter met about eight o'clock two white bears: of the strength and ferocity of this animal, the Indians had given us dreadful accounts: they never attack him but in parties... 
