 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - Columbia River - 1815 - 466 pages
...across which a long pole is extended the whole length of the structure. Against this ridge-pole are placed broad boards, and pieces of canoes, in a slanting...stands east and west, and neither of the extremities is closed. On entering the western end we observed a number of bodies wrapped carefully in leathern... | |
 | Charles Johnston, Peter Johnston - Indian captivities - 1827 - 276 pages
...across which, a long pole is extended the whole length of the structure. Against this ridgepole, are placed broad boards, and pieces of canoes, in a slanting...extremities are closed. On entering the western end, we ob served a number of bodies wrapped carefully in leather robes, and arranged in rows on boards, which... | |
 | James Athearn Jones - Folklore - 1830 - 354 pages
...across which a long pole is extended the whole length of the structure. Against this ridge-pole are placed broad boards and pieces of canoes in a slanting...arranged in rows on boards, which were then covered with mats. This was the part destined for those who had recently died : a little further on, bones half... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1842 - 418 pages
...across which a long pole was extended the whole length of the structure. Against this ridge-pole were placed broad boards and pieces of canoes in a slanting direction, so as to form a shed. It stood east and west, and neither of the extremities was closed. On entering the western end we observed... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1843 - 416 pages
...across which a long pole was extended the whole length of the structure. Against this ridge-pole were placed broad boards and pieces of canoes in a slanting direction, so as to form a shed. It stood east and west, and neither of the extremities was closed. On entering the western end we observed... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - 1844 - 456 pages
...slanting direction, so as to form a shed. It stood east and west, and neither of the extremities was closed. On entering the western end we observed a number of bodies wrapped carefully in leathern robes, arranged in rows on boards, and covered with a mat. This was the part destined for... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1847 - 416 pages
...across which a long pole was extended the whole length of the structure. Against this ridge-pole were placed broad boards and pieces of canoes in a slanting direction, so as to form a shed. It stood east and west, and neither of the extremities was closed. On entering the western end we observed... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 494 pages
...a slanting direction, so as to form a shed. The structure stands east and west, open at both ends. On entering the western end, we observed a number...on boards, which were then covered with a mat. This part of the building was destined for those who had recently died. A little farther on, limbs, half... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, Elliott Coues - Columbia River - 1893 - 484 pages
...across which a long pole is extended the whole length of the structure ; against this ridge-pole are placed broad boards and pieces of canoes, in a slanting...shed. It stands east and west, and neither of the (/. 25) extremities is closed. On entering the western end we observed a number of bodies wrapped carefully... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - Americana - 1904 - 456 pages
...[and constructed] so as to form a shed. It stands east and west, and neither of the extremities is closed. On entering the western end we observed a...rows on boards, which were then covered with a mat. ... A little farther on, the bones, half decayed, were scattered about, and in the center of the building... | |
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It stands east and west, and neither of the extremities are closed. On entering the western end we observed a number of bodies wrapped carefully in leather robes, and arranged in rows on boards, which were then covered with a mat. This was the part destined... 
