 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 632 pages
...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 it." This providential escape from most imminent danger, was not the end of their calamities. They were... | |
 | Samuel George Arnold - 1840 - 238 pages
...stop the raft that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with such force against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet...we were near an island, to quit our raft and make for it." This providential escape did not, however, end their sufferings. They were thrown, wet and... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...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...island, to quit our raft and make to it. The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen ; and the water... | |
 | A. W. Patterson - Frontier and pioneer life - 1843 - 328 pages
...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 it.' " This providential escape from most imminent danger, was not the end of their calamities. They were... | |
 | American literature - 1835 - 638 pages
...raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, am we were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it." gallant men received, was in the memorable plain of Braddock. Every one is familiar with that scene... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1845 - 250 pages
...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...we were near an island, to quit our raft and make for it. " The cold was extremely severe, and Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen.... | |
 | Henry Howe - Literary Criticism - 1845 - 616 pages
...by catching hold of one of the raftlogs. Notwithstanding all our «fibrin, 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 it." This was a desert island. They passed the night in extreme suffering, from the intense cold, and Mr.... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...INDIAN WAR. " Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get on either shore, but were obliged, a^ we were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. " The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers, and some of his toes frozen ; and the water... | |
 | Henry Howe - Literary Criticism - 1845 - 596 pages
...raftlogi. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged, aa we were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it" This was a desert island. They passed the night in extreme suffering, from the intense cold, and Mr.... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 788 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...island, to quit our raft and make to it. "The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen, and the water was... | |
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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... 
