Adventurers of the Far North A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas doc

... miles east and west. This is the Great Slave Lake; Hearne speaks of it as Athaspuscow Lake. The latter name is the same as that now given to another lake (Athabaska of Canadian maps) the word ... beyond the basin of the Saskatchewan and the Columbia emptied towards the north. Hearne had revealed the existence of the Great Slave Lake, and the advance of daring...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... to the railroad magnate; quite naturally, therefore, the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other. As in the parallel case of ... by a large number of stockholders, all of whom had equal voice in the management of the company. The stores sold goods at ordinary rates, and then at the end of t...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20

... because 'It will please your whole army, as it shows them the way to gain by their gallantry the hearts and affections of the Ladys.' And even a city of the 'Great Awakening,' ... hogshead of the best Jamaica rum for the garrison of the Royal Battery, won him a great deal of goodwill, in spite of the fact that his 'Admiral's eighth...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... made him widely known as the reform mayor of Buffalo. His record and reputation naturally attracted the attention of the state managers of the Democratic party, who were casting about for a ... people, and there were many indications of popular sympathy. Stories of his exploits have had an extensive sale, and his name has become a center of legend and ballad some...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 09:20

... experience. There is an instance of a priest from Santa Clara, sued before the alcalde of San José for a breach of contract. His plea was that as a churchman he was not amenable to civil law. The American ... several trails. The third was by the Isthmus of Panama. Each of these two is worth a chapter, and we shall take up the overland migration first. CHAPTER V ACR...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... On the sea the capture of the Chesapeake by the Shannon salved the pride of England. The last year of the war was also a year of varying fortunes. In the far West a small body of Canadians and ... fellow trader, Mackay, and six Canadian voyageurs, he pushed up the Peace and the Parsnip, passed by way of the Fraser and the Blackwater to the Bella...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... bounty from Canada because his attention was concentrated on the costly war against Holland. Campaigns at home meant economy in Canada, and the colony was far from having reached the stage where ... of Canada, the strife between Frontenac and Laval may be traced back to France. During the early years of Louis XIV the French Church was distracted by the disputes of Gallic...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:21

... possession of Andaraque, and of all the country of the Mohawks, in the name of the king. A cross was solemnly planted alongside a post bearing the king's coat of arms. Mass was celebrated and the ... triangular, narrow at the head, wide at the base, so that the houses erected at the head were near each other and formed a square in the centre of th...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... tempting was the foreign war trade, that a fleet of them was sent across the Atlantic until the American Government barred them from the war zone as too easy a prey for submarine attack. They therefore ... shipmasters who had the gift of writing. Captain Amasa Delano, "Narrative of Voyages and Travels" (1817). Another of the rare human documents of blu...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20