 | 1848 - 742 pages
...drunk with the chase and cared for nothing but the buffalo. I laid on the lash without intermission. Very soon a long dark mass became visible, looming...We had run unawares upon a ravine. At that moment I was not the most accurate judge of depth and width, but when I passed it on my return, I found it... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1875 - 406 pages
...that I could have touched them with my gun. Suddenly, to my amazement, the hoofs were jerked upwards, the tails flourished in the air, and amid a cloud...We had run unawares upon a ravine. At that moment I was not the most accurate judge of depth and width, but when I passed it on my return, I found it... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1877 - 406 pages
...have touched them with my gun. Suddenly, to my amazement, the hoofs were jerked upwards, the tail* flourished in the air, and amid a cloud of dust the...We had run unawares upon a ravine. At that moment I was not the most accurate judge of depth and width, but when I passed it ou my return, I found it... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1885 - 406 pages
...that I could have touched them with my gun. Suddenly, to my amazement, the hoofs were jerked upwards, the tails flourished in the air, and amid a cloud...instant remains upon my mind. I remember looking down npon the backs of several buffalo dimly visible through the dust. We had run unawares upon a ravine.... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1898 - 286 pages
...that I could have touched them with my gun. Suddenly, to my amazement, the hoofs were jerked upwards, the tails flourished in the air, and amid a cloud...We had run unawares upon a ravine. At that moment I was not the most accurate judge of depth and width, but when I passed it on my return, I found it... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1901 - 448 pages
...concealed a band of many hundreds of buffalo. In a moment I was in the midst of the cloud, half-suffocated by the dust and stunned by the trampling of the flying...We had run unawares upon a ravine. At that moment I was not the most accurate judge of depth and width, but when I passed it on my return, I found it... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1910 - 406 pages
...concealed a band of many hundreds of buffalo. In a moment I was in the midst of the cloud, half-suffocated by the dust and stunned by the trampling of the flying...We had run unawares upon a ravine. At that moment I was not the most accurate judge of depth and width, but when I passed it on my return, I found it... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1910 - 400 pages
...concealed a band of many hundreds of buffalo. In a moment I was in the midst of the cloud, half-suffocated by the dust and stunned by the trampling of the flying...We had run unawares upon a ravine. At that moment I was not the most accurate judge of depth and width, but when I passed it on my return, I found it... | |
 | Francis Parkman - 1910 - 574 pages
...drunk with the chase and cared for nothing but the buffalo. I laid on the lash without intermission. Very soon a long dark mass became visible, looming...We had run unawares upon a ravine. At that moment I was not the most accurate judge of depth and width, but when I passed it on my return, I found it... | |
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Suddenly, to my utter amazement, the hoofs were jerked upward, the tails flourished in the air, and amid a cloud of dust the buffalo seemed to sink into the earth before me. One vivid impression of that instant remains upon my mind. I remember looking... 
