 sands the trail of men ; a little footpath was discerned 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with the savages. After walking six miles, they beheld a village on the banks...  HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - Sivu 158tekijä(t) GEORGE BANCROFT - 1856Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 582 sivua
...western bank of the Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men ; a little foot-path was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the...two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 698 sivua
...western bank of the Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie; and, leaving the...two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 662 sivua
...western bank of the Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie; and, leaving the...two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-ua, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1847 - 592 sivua
...western bank of the Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men ; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the...two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-fia, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the... | |
 | 1850 - 322 sivua
...in a savage country. We followed this little path in silence about two leagues, when we discovered a village on the banks of a river, and two others on a hill about half a league from the first. We now commended ourselves to God, and having implored his... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1852 - 664 sivua
...western bank of the Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men ; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the...two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 478 sivua
...western bank of the Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie, and, leaving the...two others on a slope at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 656 sivua
...western bank of the Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men ; a little foot-path was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie, and, leaving the...two others on a slope at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Meu-in-gou-e-na, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the... | |
 | William Rudolph Smith - 1854 - 432 sivua
...Joliet fearlessly followed these indications of human beings, arid after a walk of six miles, discovered a village on the banks of a river, and two others on the rising grounds, about half a league distant. They boldly penetrated into the village, and were... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 sivua
...western bank of the Mississippi bore on its sands the trail of men ; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the...a village on the banks of a river, and two others oa a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or... | |
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