 | François André Michaux - 1805 - 114 halaman
...they are called in the United States, the first settlers : they are a wandering horde of people, %vho are never satisfied with the soil which they have...Wheeling, and who being likewise on his way down the Ohio, we travelled with him for ten days. He was alone in a canoe about eighteen or twenty feet long,... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 396 halaman
...towards the most distant points of the American population, and go and settle in the neighbourhood of the savage nations, whom they brave even in their own country. Their ungenerous mode of treating them stirs up frequent broils, that brings on bloody wars, in which... | |
 | Reuben Gold Thwaites - 1904 - 396 halaman
...towards the most distant points of the American population, and go and settle in the neighbourhood of the savage nations, whom they brave even in their own country. Their ungenerous mode of treating them stirs up frequent broils, that brings on bloody wars, in which... | |
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... of men who cannot settle upon the soil that they have cleared, and who under pretence of finding a better land, a more wholesome country, a greater abundance of game, push forward, incline perpetually towards the most distant points of the American... 