 | Henry Howe - District of Columbis - 1852 - 614 pages
...by catching hold of one of the raftlogs. 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 was a desert island. They passed the night in extreme suffering, from the intense cold, and Mr.... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1853 - 786 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... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1854 - 775 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...were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. went to Mr. Frazier's. We met here with twenty warriors, who were going to the southward to war; but... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...Washington and Mr. Gist journeying through the Snow. so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself...were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. ]HE cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers, and some of his toes frozen, and... | |
 | 1854 - 768 pages
...me out into ten feet water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raftlogs. 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 shut... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 706 pages
...me out into ten feet water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raftlogs. 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 shut... | |
 | William Bromwell - Locomotives - 1854 - 208 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...were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. (Now called Washington's Island.). "The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers... | |
 | Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1854 - 528 pages
...out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of tho raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get...were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. (Now called Washington's Island.) "The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers... | |
 | Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1854 - 526 pages
...raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, as wo were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. (Now called Washington's Island.) " "The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all hia fingers... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 pages
...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 thrown... | |
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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... 
