 About sixty leagues below the mouth of the Wisconsin, the 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 canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone...  The North American Review - Sivu 61muokkaaja - 1841Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 sivua
...men; a I'+tle footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful praiiie; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet were the first white men who trod the soil of Iowa. Commending themselves to God, they uttered... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1843 - 524 sivua
...little footpath was discerned 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, ^m- or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name i"m. into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet were... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 sivua
...footpath was discerned June . . . 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...two others on a slope, at a distance of a mile and a half qM^i from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, coml or Moingona, of which we have corrupted... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 374 sivua
...a little foot-path was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, or Moiugona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet were the first... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1845 - 662 sivua
...a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-ua, or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 sivua
...little footpath was discerned 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, com- Of Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name pare Chill !<•• into Des Moines. Marquette... | |
 | James Dixon - 1849 - 522 sivua
...leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to have a meeting with the savages. After walking six miles,...the banks of a river, and two others on a slope, at the distance of a mile and a half from the first. The river was the Mon-ingon-e-na, or Moingona, of... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1850 - 516 sivua
...footpath was discerned June • . r 25. leading into a beautiful prairie ; and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...from the first. The river was the Mou-in-gou-e-na, co>"- or Moingona, of which we have corrupted the name .oiT'ih". into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 478 sivua
...; a little footpath was discerned leading into a beautiful prairie, and, leaving the canoes, Joliet and Marquette resolved alone to brave a meeting with...corrupted the name into Des Moines. Marquette and Joliet were the first white men who trod the soil of Iowa. Commending themselves to God, they uttered... | |
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