Book/Printed Material Travels in North America during the years 1834, 1835 & 1836, including a summer residence with the Pawnee tribe of Indians in the remote prairies of the Missouri, and a visit to Cuba and the Azore Islands. Volume 1
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Image 1 of Volume 1 Sir Charles Augustus Murray Travels in North America during the years 1834, 1835, & 1836. London, R. Bentley. 1839 Copy 2
- Contributor: Murray, Charles Augustus
- Date: 1839-01-01
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Image 4 of Volume 1 The Pipe Dance and the Tomahawk Dance of the Chippeway Tribe.
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Image 5 of Volume 1 DEDICATION TO THE QUEEN. Madam, It is with mingled feelings of anxiety and gratitude that I avail myself of Your Majesty's gracious permission to inscribe to you the following Narrative. It pretends…
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Image 6 of Volume 1 iv venture, unblamed, to express, on this occasion, my earnest desire, and my heartfelt prayer, that your reign may be long and happy, and that Britain may hereafter look back with regret…
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Image 7 of Volume 1 PREFACE. It is very seldom that the journal of a traveller appears before the public unaccompanied by a prefatory declaration that it was not his original intention to publish, and that he…
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Image 8 of Volume 1 vi who travel without any scientific object, and is, probably, applicable to the following narrative. Some readers may be disposed to inquire why I have allowed two or three years to elapse…
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Image 9 of Volume 1 vii American Indians, amongst whom I travelled, are not the productions of my own pencil: they are borrowed from designs already published, although not generally known in Europe: the sketch of the…
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Image 11 of Volume 1 CONTENTS OF OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAPTER I. Embark at Liverpool.—Cabin and Steerage Passengers.—Whimsical Distress of a Military Captain.—A heavy Sea.—Portuguese Man-of-war.—A false Alarm.—May Morning at Sea.—A Leak sprung: our perilous Situation.—Reflections…
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Image 12 of Volume 1 X CHAPTER III. A Marine Excursion.—Novel Mode of landing.—Dinner with Captain L.—A Portuguese Ecclesiastic.—Latin Conversation with him.—Pico Wine.—Excursion resumed.—Disagreeable Quarters.—A Storm.—Providential Escape.—Velas.—Volcanic Craters.—A buried Church.—Unlucky Search for Game.—Female Costume.—Fuel.—Return to Fayal—The Waverley…
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Image 13 of Volume 1 xi Burlington.—Students in the College of that Town.—An Obliging Landlord.—Road to Montpelier.—The Camel's Hump.—American Liberality.—Accommodations at the Taverns.—John Bull a bad Traveller.—Hanover.—Concord.—A Criminal Trial in this Town.—Amoskeag.—Exchange of Steeds.—Lowell—its Lucrative Trade.—Approach to…
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Image 14 of Volume 1 xii CHAPTER IX. Quit Washington for a Tour in Virginia.—Voyage down the Potomac in the Champion Steamer.—Land Journey to Frederics-burgh.—Wretched Road.—Arrival at Frederiesburgh.—The Town.—House of Judge Coalter—hospitable Reception by that Gentleman.—Writers in…
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Image 15 of Volume 1 xiii CHAPTER XI. Embark on the Ohio.—Banks of the River.—Wheeling.—Remarkable Indian Mound.—Risings of the River.—Arrival at Cincinnati.—The Town.—The Museum.—Manufacture.—Mrs. Trollope's Bazaar—her erroneous Statements.—Prosperity of Cincinnati—Hospitality of its Inhabitants.—American Servants.—The Cholera.—Contrast between the…
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Image 16 of Volume 1 xiv CHAPTER XIV. Pawnee Chiefs with whom I started.—Leave Fort Leavenworth.—Rolling Prairie.—Halting-place.—Loss of Horses.—Flock of Perroquets.—Our stray Horses.—Indian Appetite.—Accidents by the Way.—Overtake the Pawnee Deputation.—Esculent Roots.—Deer-stalking in the Prairie.—A Misfortune.—Cross the Great…
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Image 17 of Volume 1 xv Months and Years.—Office of Soldiers.—A “Cerne,” or “Surround.”—Buffalo Hunt.—Preparation of Buffalo Skins.—Strange Fuel.—March resumed.—Otoe chief.—Deadly Feud between two Brothers.—Great Medicine Feast.—Impromptu Oration.—Indian Eloquence.—Grace before Meat.—Rapid Feeding.—Method of Invitation to a Feast.—Contrasted…
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Image 18 of Volume 1 xvi CHAPTER XXI. Interview with the Great Chief.—Telescope regained.—Stock of Provisions for the Journey.—Indian Knavery.—Disinterested Generosity.—Exchange of Horses.—Message from the Great Chief.—“Talk.”—Invitation to the Great Chief.—Presents made to him.—Want of Cleanliness among…
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Image 19 of Volume 1 TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES, ETC. CHAPTER I. Embark at Liverpool.—Cabin and Steerage Passengers.—Whimsical Distress of a Military Captain.—A heavy Sea.—Portuguese Man-of-war.—A false Alarm.—May Morning at Sea.—A Leak sprung: our perilous Situation.—Reflections…
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Image 20 of Volume 1 2 secured my berth, I considered myself thereby justified in my selection. We sailed at 5 A. M. with a steady light breeze from the E. S. E. The cabin passengers consisted…
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Image 21 of Volume 1 3 opening my door to catch the air and words, I discovered that the vocalist was the military captain, who was endeavouring to cheat himself into good spirits by singing “I'm rather…
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Image 22 of Volume 1 4 colours to the sun, that few of the tiny inhabitants of air or earth are so pretty to look upon.* * The Portuguese man-of-war is of the “Medusa” species, and its…
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Image 23 of Volume 1 5 ladies' cabin, and occasioned the alarm above mentioned. It was of short duration, but the first impression caused by the cry of fire, when there is a heavy sea running, and…
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Image 24 of Volume 1 6 streets of London, were, for a time, remembered with regret. The evening closed in without any indication of storm or danger. About 7 o'clock P. M. I was whiling away my…
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Image 25 of Volume 1 7 and that as far as he could learn it had neither diminished nor gained ground since the pumps began to work. Here was at least some ground for hope, so I…
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Image 26 of Volume 1 8 gigantic power and energy. Together, they draw back the veil from scenes long past and long forgotten, and present a picture for the soul to contemplate, so wide in its range,…
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Image 27 of Volume 1 9 “Is it not too hard? I care not for myself, but my poor boy, whom I have with such difficulty separated from his mother, must I see him drowned before my…
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Image 28 of Volume 1 10 gloomy thoughts which it would otherwise have engendered. All our efforts, however, although continued without intermission for twenty-four hours, seemed likely to prove unavailing, for on the morning of the 3rd,…
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Image 29 of Volume 1 11 deck which was constantly flooded with water: as the heaviest goods (iron and cased-tin) were near the bottom of the hold, we were obliged, before we could reach them, to heave…
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Image 30 of Volume 1 12 day; towards noon we got at the tin and iron, and at sunset, the mate calculated that we had heaved over twenty ton of crockery, and seventy ton of metal. Here…
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Image 31 of Volume 1 13 men at work without intermission, day and night, while the heaving over the cargo found full employment for twenty more! During the whole of the 3rd the wind blew fresh from…
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Image 32 of Volume 1 14 and a storm-jib, which had been set a few minutes before I came on deck, was blown into ribands! The might of the ocean was now aroused, and the large ship…
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Image 33 of Volume 1 15 sudden cry of warning from Captain Phillips, (who sprung up the weather mizen-shrouds with the activity of a cat,) but before I could catch his meaning, or look around, a heavy…
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Image 34 of Volume 1 16 thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet: so He bringeth them unto their desired haven.”* * Ps. 107, v. 23, et seq. Most of the labourers and…
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Image 35 of Volume 1 17 moderate, she lowered a boat and sent a mate and half-a-dozen men on board of us. She proved to be the Lady Raffles, from Bengal, bound for London; they said that…
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Image 36 of Volume 1 18 them, and encouraged them at the pumps; many of them had worked at the harvest, in the west of Scotland, and knew my family, so they call me the young Scotch…
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Image 37 of Volume 1 19 risk. We were at one time threatened with a mutiny, on the subject of ardent spirits, which the steerage-passengers insisted upon having served out, whereas it had been determined from the…
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Image 38 of Volume 1 20 we shortened sail, and on the morning of the 9th were off Fayal. I leave it for the reader to imagine the sensations of delight and gratitude which accompanied the first…
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Image 39 of Volume 1 CHAPTER II. Approach to Fayal.—Peak of Pico—Reception by the British Consul.—The Town—its declining State.—Politeness of the People-Singular Custom.—Inauguration of the Emperor and Empress of Fayal.—The Fayal Authorities.—Agriculture.—Donkeys.-Volcanic Formation of the Island.—Market Days.—Cruelty…
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Image 40 of Volume 1 22 rounded on three sides, are covered with orange, lemon, lime, box, geranium, and other beautiful shrubs. On landing, we went to the house of the British Consul, Mr. Walker, from whom…
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- Date: 1839-01-01