 | George Iles - America - 1902 - 206 pages
...entreat us not to go on", and tell us that it is madness to set out in this place; that we can never get safely through it; and, further, that the river turns...too late to climb out. Some tears are shed; it is a rather solemn parting; each party thinks the other is taking the dangerous course. My old boat left,... | |
 | Calvin Noyes Kendall - 1922 - 380 pages
...on, and told us that it was madness; that we could never get through safely; that the river turned again to the south into the granite, and a few miles of such rapids and falls would exhaust our entire stock of rations, when it would be too late to climb out. It was rather a... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Travel - 1961 - 454 pages
...tnrns again to the sonth into the granite, and a few miles of snch rapids and falls will exhanst onr entire stock of rations, and then it will be too late to climb ont. Some tears are shed ; it is rather a solemn parting ; each party thinks the other is taking the... | |
 | John Wesley Powell - Travel - 1961 - 454 pages
...entreat ns not to go ou, and tell ns that it is madness to set ont in this place ; that we can never get safely through it ; and, further, that the river turns again to the sonth into the granite, and a few miles of snch rapids and falls will exhanst our entire stock of ratious,... | |
 | J. W. Powell - 1875 - 446 pages
...entreat us not to go on, and tell us that it is madness to set out in this place; that we can never get safely through it; and, further, that the river turns...into the granite, and a few miles of such rapids and Mis will exhaust our entire stock of rations, and then it will be too late to climb out. Some tears... | |
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... to his sister should he not be heard from again. The records of the expedition have been kept in duplicate. One set of these is given to Howland; and now we are ready. For the last time they entreat us not to go on, and tell us that it is madness... 