 I positively debated within myself two or three times whether I should take the trouble to bend my back to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when further on, another glittering morsel caught my eye — the largest of the pieces...  The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft - Page 74by Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 814 pages
...curiosity was so far excited, that he stooped down and picked one of them up. ' Do you know,' said Mr. Marshall to me, ' I positively debated within myself...right. His first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants... | |
 | Henry Vizetelly - 1849 - 238 pages
...debated within myself two or three times whether I should take the trouble to bend my back to pick \ip one of the pieces, and had decided on not doing so,...right. His first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of tho?e mysterious inhabitants... | |
 | Henry Vizetelly - 1849 - 104 pages
...pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, further on, another glittering morsel caught my eye—the largest of the pieces now before you. I condescended...right. His first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe—perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants... | |
 | 1849 - 896 pages
...me, ' I positively debated within myself HOGG'S INSTRUCTOR. two or three times whether I should tnke the trouble to bend My back to pick up one of the...astonishment found that it was a thin scale of what nppears to be pure gold. He then gathered some twenty or thirty similar pieces, which on examination... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 pages
...curiosity was so far excited, that he stooped down and picked one of them up. ' Do you know,' said Mr. Marshall to me, ' I positively debated within myself...what appears to be pure gold.' He then gathered some 20 or 30 similar pieces, which on examination convinced him that his suppositions were right. His first... | |
 | John Frost - 1850 - 558 pages
...curiosity was so far excited, that he stooped down and picked one of them up. ' Do you know,' said Mr. Marshall to me, ' I positively debated within myself...astonishment found that it was a thin scale of what appeara to be pure gold.' He then gathered some twenty or thirty similar pieces, which on examination... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 542 pages
...positively debated within myself two or three times whether I should take the trouble to bend my hack to pick up one of the pieces, and had decided on not...right. His first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants... | |
 | John Frost - 1857 - 853 pages
...pieces, and had decided on not doing so, when, farther on, another glittering morsel caught my eye—the largest of the pieces now before you. I condescended...right. His first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe—perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants... | |
 | 1888 - 608 pages
...curiosity was so far excited that he stooped down and picked one of them up. ' Do you know,' said Mr. Marshall to me, ' I positively debated within myself...right. His first impression was, that this gold had been lost or buried there by some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1888 - 866 pages
...them up. ' Do you know,' said Marshall to me, ' I positively debated within myself two or three timcw, whether I should take the trouble to bend my back...right. His first impression was that this gold had been lost or buried there oy some early Indian tribe — perhaps some of those mysterious inhabitants... | |
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