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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 275
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Foreign Literature. Tagehuch Of A Journe...
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the Johns * day The consisted , party by the , including overhang of above seventy ing a military boug persons hs escort . ; and , under the the whole command expedition of Lieutenant was under
the orders , of the Engineer , Lieut . Whipple , a man who had already distintions guished united himself the in advantage similar undertaking of particularl s and y pleasing to special manners professional which qualifica inspired
and confidence _"In bv , a the very in time all short who the while approached charm we were of novelty him all quite . was reconciled worn off to our the new mode of of habit life ,
, power easil came in separable to reconcile from us a bivouac to the . inconveniences One sleeps well , small enoug or _- great h upon , which the ground are not y
when learn one has to bear no choice the heat , and when scorp it ions must and be tarantulas borne ; if soon you lose get their wet , the terrors rain ; _,
you c sweetened annot penetr with ate map farther le sugar than , , the make skin a ; superb and broile meal d me when at and there black is nothing coffee ,
grown better "In to up a be very among had short . our time little a community very friendl , althoug y , not to h it say consisted brotherl at y of random feeling very hete , had but
had it rogenous was tended not elements the to awaken jovial , men doing it of so s much various at Fort as nations the Smith thoug , flung the ht wine together that and for months the hurrahs , perhaps ; that otherand the tacit under
years pathless standing , we wildernesses that might , throug be thrown of h the the upon toils far west each and , we dangers would ' s society of be our mutuall , journey y and throug cordiall h the y -
hel p ' ful Every to one morning another the . party might be seen leaving the camp in joyous mood , and dispersing in all directions to set about all kinds of little preparatory
labor the stones . The till geolog the ist woods would echoed get down with to his the _indiLstry river , and . The hammer botanist away had among disremarkable lantand of
coveredon a certain treea parasitical p , regardless obstructing throug expense h , a in close the creepers and way ; tang of and torn , led then growth garments , with of , still was thorn greater working and underwood labor his , way up , the towards and mi toug ghty it h ,
had trunk among tempted on the which dry him trunk it rustling into grew until the . le thicket The at aves la naturalist st remaining , it and took there had from kept caug in last a eluding ht hole si autumn ght under his of , pursuit a an now lizard immense within ; that now some decaying refuge
block of stoneand would , have been irrecoverably lost , had it not left exposed The surveyors a small , and extremity chain- of men tail follow , of almost which the direction the vertical enemy indicated man of aged the to mid them to lay by hold the .
drive compass them , and back work to the on camp till , the where they generally rays find the whole - company day sun assembled , pretty well tired out with the work to which as yet they are little
accustomed " When the . lizards , snakes , frogs , toads , and other treasures have been deposited the lants in sp and irits flowers , the butterflies comfortabl and y tucked beetles in placed between on their sheets respective of paper , p and ins , p
the dinnerat which various good things are still to be found , satisfactorily disposed little of afterno tent of , on , , and every heat pr . ep man ares Soon looks to the sleep out onl away for y sounds a , convenient as well heard as he p are lace can the , in the low she oppressive the humming shadow of hours of his of a
the negro the grasshoppers _sleej fati melod gue ) y of , lolls , the the the carelessl hum chatter morning of bees of . against the , The or parrots the man the heavy trunk whose on the slumberous of duty nearest a tree it is trees and sounds to keep , the that two watch chirp who suggest ing over are
to relieve ers him , wile away y the time in the shadow of the ; great tent , which ,
Notices Of Books. 275
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 275
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/59/
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