 ... industrious. They have their noses cut off if they do wrong. They raise watermelons, pumpkins, and squashes of all kinds. Also three crops of corn in a year. One crop is gathered while another is springing from the ground." It was doubtless a matter...  The New International Encyclopaedia - Page 274edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - America - 1844 - 338 pages
...they were informed that they were within five days' sail of the sea, on which they became convinced that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and not into the Sea of California. They considered that by proceeding downward, they might fall into the hands of the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 892 pages
...Mississippi, June 17, 1037, and passing down, naciicd Ihe Arkansas. Satbficd that the liver flowed into the gulf of Mexico, and not into the Pacific ocean, they returned to lake Michigan, by the way of the Illinois river. Joliet preceding ¡done to Quebec, his canoe upset... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago - 1880 - 580 pages
...actual discovery of the Mississippi stimulated La Salle's ambition to higher aims than ever. That it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico and not into the Pacific Ocean, was now his settled belief, and, peering into the future, he foresaw with a penetrating eye the yet... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1881 - 830 pages
...sea. Voyaging down the great river until they were satistied, when at the month of the Arkansas Kiver, that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and not into the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, they concluded to return, to avoid captivity among the Spaniards farther... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago (Ill.) - 1881 - 812 pages
...actual discovery of the Mississippi stimulated La Salle's ambition to higher aims than ever. That it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico and not into the Pacific Ocean, was now his settled belief, and, peering into the future, he foresaw with a penetrating eye the yet... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 964 pages
...Mississippi, June 17, 1637, and passing down, reached the Arkansas. Satisfied Uist the river flowed into the gulf of Mexico, and not into the Pacific ocean, they returned to lake Michigan, by the way of the Illinois river. Joliet proceeding alone to Quebec, his canoe upset... | |
 | Walter Robinson Smith - Louisiana - 1904 - 112 pages
...situation now led to a serious council regarding a change of policy. They had gone far enough to prove that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and not into the South Sea or the Gulf of California, and would it not be better to return and report progress preparatory... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1905 - 532 pages
...Voyaging down the great river until they were siitislied, when at the moutli of the Arkansas River, that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and not into the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, they concluded to return, to avoid captivity among thr Spaniards farther... | |
 | Kansas State Historical Society - Kansas - 1906 - 684 pages
...July, 1673. After paddling their canoes down as far as the Arkansas,10 the voyagers became convinced that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and not into the Atlantic ocean or the Gulf of California, as had been surmised. They also learned from the natives... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - History - 1906 - 532 pages
...sea. Voyaging down the great river until they were satisfied, when at the mouth of the Arkansas River, that the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico, and not into the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, they concluded to return, to avoid captivity among the Spaniards farther... | |
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