The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume 4,Edição 3Washington University State Historical Society., 1913 |
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Página 223 - It is moreover agreed that hereafter there shall not be formed by the citizens of the United States, or under the authority of the said States, any establishment upon the Northwest Coast of America, nor in any of the islands adjacent to the north of fifty-four degrees and forty minutes of north latitude...
Página 191 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow?
Página 223 - It is agreed that in any part of the Great Ocean, commonly called the Pacific Ocean, or South Sea, the respective citizens or subjects of the high contracting Powers shall be neither disturbed nor restrained, either in navigation or in fishing, or in the power of resorting to the coasts, upon points which may not already have been occupied, for the purpose of trading with the natives, saving always the restrictions and conditions determined by the following articles.
Página 223 - It is, nevertheless, understood that, during a term of ten years, counting from the signature of the present convention, the ships of both powers, or which belong to their citizens or subjects, respectively, may reciprocally frequent, without any hinderance whatever, the interior seas, gulfs, harbors, and creeks, upon the coast mentioned in the preceding article, for the purpose of fishing and trading with the natives of the country.
Página 223 - ARTICLE II. With a view of preventing the rights of navigation and of fishing exercised upon the Great Ocean by the citizens and subjects of the high contracting Powers from becoming the pretext for an illicit trade, it is agreed that the citizens of the United States shall not resort to any point where there is a Russian establishment, without the permission of the governor or commander ; and that, reciprocally, the subjects of Russia shall not resort, without permission, to any establishment of...
Página 168 - This being the day of the declaration of Independence of the United States and a Day commonly scelebrated by my Country I had every disposition to selebrate this day and therefore halted early and partook of a Sumptious Dinner of a fat Saddle of Venison and much of Cow (roots).
Página 200 - Pickett's Charge" had part of his early career on Puget Sound. Mrs. Pickett's book has two chapters on San Juan. Other Books Received AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, BUREAU OF. Twenty-Eighth Annual Report, 1906-1907. (Washington. Government Printing Office, 1912. Pp. 308 plus xxxv. ATWOOD, EL The Modern Warship. (Cambridge, England, University Press, and New York, Putnam's, 1913. Pp. 146. 40 cents. ) BRAWLEY, BENJAMIN GRIFFITH. A Short History of the American Negro. (New York, Macmillan. 1913. Pp. 247. $1.25.)...
Página 174 - This being a memorable day, the liquor kegs were opened, and the men allowed an abundance. We, therefore, soon had a renewal of the coarse and brutal scenes of the rendezvous. Some of the bacchanals called for a volley in honor of the day, and in obedience to the order, some twenty or thirty " happy" ones reeled into line, with their muzzles directed to every point of the compass, and when the word " fire" was given, we who were not "happy" had to lie flat upon the ground to avoid the bullets which...