 | United States - 1887 - 734 pages
...raft and make to it." " The cold was so extremely severe," adds the major, " that Mr. Gist had all of his fingers and some of his toes frozen ; and the...the ice, in the morning, and went to Mr. Frazier's [Fraser's]." They left there on the first day of January, 1754, and on the sixth they " met seventeen... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Chapman - Allegheny River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1887 - 224 pages
...to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. The cold was so extremely severe that Mr. Gist had all...the ice in the morning, and went to Mr. Frazier's." The island upon which Washington and Mr. Gist spent that cold winter night is thought to have been... | |
 | John Moses - Illinois - 1889 - 632 pages
...to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. The cold was so extremely severe that Mr. Gist had all...off the island on the ice in the morning, and went on to Mr. Frazier's." They arrived at Williamsburg, Jan. 16, 1754. The information brought by Washington... | |
 | George Washington - Estados Unidos - Historia - 1889 - 558 pages
...to either Shore ; but were obliged, as we were near an Island, to quit our Raft and make to it. The Cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his Fingers, and some of his Toes frozen ; but the water was shut up so hard, that we found no Difficulty in getting-off the Island, on the... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1889 - 560 pages
...Cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his Fingers, and some of his Toes frozen ; but the water was shut up so hard, that we found no Difficulty in getting-off the Island, on the Ice, in the Morning, and went to Mr. Fraziers. We met here with 20 Warriors... | |
 | Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - Pennsylvania - 1897 - 316 pages
...to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island, to quit our raft and make to it. The cold was so extremely severe that Mr. Gist had all...and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on the ice in the morning." They went... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago (Ill.) - 1898 - 716 pages
...to keep on, telling us that there were Ottawa Indians in these woods, Washington 's Journal. 109 The cold was so extremely severe that Mr. Gist had all his fingers and Borne of his toes frozen; and the water was shut up so hard that we found no difficulty in getting... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Chapman - History - 1900 - 248 pages
...more distressing or more discouraging situation one can hardly imagine. The night was intensely cold. Mr. Gist had all his fingers and some of his toes frozen. We have no report that Washington was at all frost-bitten. That he could escape, his clothes soaked... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - United States - 1902 - 426 pages
...to either shore; but were obliged, as we were near an island, to quit our raft, and make to it. The cold was so extremely severe that Mr. Gist had all...the ice in the morning, and went to Mr. Frazier's." Washington's journal, which he kept on this trip, was published both in Virginia and in England, and... | |
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The cold was so extremely severe, that Mr. Gist had all his fingers, and some of his toes frozen, and the water was shut up so hard, that we found no difficulty in getting off the island on the ice in the morning, and went to Mr. Frazier's. 
