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Thomaston, Me. (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ook, who came ashore the next day, I recognized a familiar face, and I could safely congratulate my former townsman for his success in weathering the storm with only the loss of a bowsprit and topmast and some damage to the rudder. He was also favored above all the succeeding vessels by being admitted to quarantine. . . . The poor barque was less fortunate, and when I went alongside of her in the customhouse boat on Saturday, she was certainly a sad spectacle. She was the Warren of Thomaston, Maine, Captain Condry, from Philadelphia, with flour and grain; and as we approached her she seemed like one of Herman Melville's ghostly ships. She lay deep in the water, her starboard bulwarks almost wholly broken away, no vestige left of bowsprit and foremast, only the lower mainmast and mizzenmast standing. . .. Two women and a baby were on the quarterdeck; and to crown all the sufferings, she had no bill of health and was refused quarantine. All this I learned from the captain, quest
Batavia, N. Y. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ul, and again past all whooping! Nobody ever told us, nobody ever prepared us, we knew nothing of it They told us of the views and the mountains and the ocean, but that we should step suddenly into all the South of Europe at once, set our feet in Lisbon and Madrid and Naples all in one, a place where not a person looks as any person ever looked in America, not a sound but is new! . . . We have had the day that comes but once in a life — the first day in a foreign country. At Singapore or Batavia we should feel no farther from home. It has been a day of absolute intoxication. I have seen no beauty in Nature, I have scarcely looked at the lovely Pico across the bay, in the wonder of this new human existence. From that moment when I stumbled on deck at five and saw the dim ghostly island round which we were gliding, through all the gradual approach and the dawning of light, bringing out the great bluffs and the bare high hills, all patched in squares of vegetation, hedged with cane
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
of red and blue and yellow. I see that picturesqueness consists in a proper mingling of nudity and dirt; introduce comfort and the art of printing, and it vanishes. I am thankful to see these things, but only too grateful that I was born in New England. Yet the beggars, though as dreadful in their appearance as I expected, are not quite so importunate. Horta, Fayal, December 29 Our chamber window looks down upon the white surf which lashes the sea-wall on the other side of the narrow d on the way. This two thousand dollars, with our remittance, and our two parties of emigrants (which would not have gone till by this time if I had not gone to work on it the first night I came) are absolutely all that has yet been done by New England for Kansas, in this time of imminent need. This I say to show you how ill-prepared we are for such emergencies. The busy give no time and the leisurely no energy, and there is no organization. I should except the Committee here, which has d
Raquette River (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
tumn, and through dawning and dying days; large lakes with rippling waves ( chibogles, as the boatmen say) breaking their darkness into blue; little fairylike ponds with outlets inscrutable; creeks losing themselves in bushes; the fascinating Raquette River, soft and shaded as the Artichoke, down which for many miles we travelled; with tall pine trees left by the lumberers, cedars hung with long white moss, and mounds of trailing grapevines. The immediate banks are seldom so high as one expectsack in going up Follansbee brook and pond in pursuit of them, but we saw that pretty pond, where the philosophers went last year, but a party of ladies and gentlemen from New Haven were camping and deer-hunting that morning ; then back to the Raquette River again and down to Stetson's, the most picturesque of log houses, where a handsome and intelligent household charmed us; here we had something to eat for the first time since morning and found that our party were still ten miles farther after
Rockport (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
uired about the one whose early bereavement touched you so, Susanna, called Pink, the fine-looking girl whose lover was lost at sea and to whom you sent Peabody's Consolations. Oh, yes, Pink was married sometime after that to Mr. Smith, over in Rockport, and had three children; then her husband died and she afterwards married a cousin of his, another Mr. Smith, and she lives in Rockport now. Thus pass the dreams of romance-Pink had always dwelt in my memory, a Hannah at the window binding shoeRockport now. Thus pass the dreams of romance-Pink had always dwelt in my memory, a Hannah at the window binding shoes ; and meanwhile she had gone placidly through two Smith bridals and probably been happy as life goes. This description of a remarkable old woman, unknown except to local fame, was found among Colonel Higginson's miscellaneous papers: Aunt Hannah dwells in a house in the outskirts of W--, solitary and alone, aged ninety-seven, taking the entire care of herself and keeping her house as nice as possible. Sometimes in the winter she is snowed up for weeks together, so that nobody see
Pigeon Cove (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ext visit to Kansas. The Worcester summers were varied by occasional sojourns at Princeton, Massachusetts, and at Pigeon Cove, near Gloucester. Princeton, June, 1853 Dearest Mother: We do not see Wachusett — we are halfway up the ascens why they have a doctor for postmaster, to provide for the broken bones. The following letters were written from Pigeon Cove, the dates ranging from 1853 to 1864. The first paragraph is from the note-book:-- , It is a severe test of the meeks by the seashore, without regular work. I have sometimes found it almost impossible to endure it. Dear Mother: Pigeon Cove is a bit of seashore, meant originally for the Isles of Shoals, but finally tacked on to mainland and thus brought ned wish so much that you could have gone with us in our lovely drive round the Cape. ... What I enjoyed most was seeing Pigeon Cove again after twenty-five years and finding it so much less altered than I expected — the same queer little fish-houses
Lawrence (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
eir side --only the sword is a bowie-knife — wild, manly-looking riders, and they are the latest from Kansas and we get them quickly into a private room to hear the news-how the road is peaceful just now, and they need flour and lead woefully at Lawrence, and how four hundred men chased seven hundred. . . . The wells are nearly dry, though I can't conceive that enough has ever been drawn from them to produce the effect, and the dirtiest thing in the landscape is the river .. The most discoura fact it was plain that the excitement had become a necessary stimulus to them, and during the partial peace which existed while I was there, they confessed that they missed something. Women complained that there was n't much to talk about. At Lawrence, when the evening drum beat to call out the guard (of United States troops, placed there by Governor Geary, for protection) somebody would always exclaim, That sounds good! And the patience is about as remarkable as the courage. People would d
Atlantic Ocean (search for this): chapter 3
into dreams. In 1855 the Higginsons sailed for Fayal for the benefit of Mrs. Higginson's health. Worcester, July . . .For companions on the voyage we may have Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dabney ... very pleasant people. There seem plenty of entertainments there — oranges, music, whaleships, Catholic priests, and a steep mountain. Pico half as high again as Mount Washington. Barque Azor., 650 miles from home, October 30 What's the name of the place? asks Mary of Captain Burke. Atlantic ocean, he promptly answers. . . ... In the middle of the first night (having been implored by Barbara not to worry me or anybody about any conceivable noise she might hear), she despairingly remarked, Four men have just fallen flat on the deck above my head ; and then plaintively, But you told me not to mind such things at which we both roared and then went to sleep. The third night was perfectly tremendous; the ship rolled enormously, all the lamps fell down or went out, all doors flapped
Fayal (Portugal) (search for this): chapter 3
dreams. In 1855 the Higginsons sailed for Fayal for the benefit of Mrs. Higginson's health. Dabney has been giving information respecting Fayal, delighting Mary's fancy with thoughts of nunsr dreamed of finding her sweet enemy, boys, in Fayal, and has thoughts of returning in the vessel forthwith. Fayal, Friday, November 9 O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful, and again pasare now prostrate. Saturday, November 10 Fayal is more digestible on the second day. What I wected, are not quite so importunate. Horta, Fayal, December 29 Our chamber window looks down ore. There were terrible winter storms at Fayal and many disabled ships were seen. An extractnths to transport them across the rough sea to Fayal. Yet here alone can they be in safety, as youds reach Magdalena. After his return from Fayal, Mr. Higginson was plunged into the Kansas troly with whom he had been in close relations in Fayal: Steamboat Cataract, aground on a bank in the[1 more...]
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
ee, which was appointed yesterday, chiefly on my urging. ... At Chicago they show an energy which disgraces us; have arrangements and men The night I came from Brattleboroa, Friday, we had letters from Chicago, and our Finance Committee voted them fifteen hundred dollars and th the same letters, to urge the Boston Committee to send money to Chicago. With great difficulty I got five minutes each from Pat Jackson ad came back. That very night we got a telegraphic despatch from Chicago, imploring us to send that precise sum, for the relief of a large o out West again for several weeks [he had previously been sent to Chicago and St. Louis to aid emigrants] to the Nebraska border, and perhapntimidated, in fact. The bad news (for you) is that I leave for Chicago to-morrow, shall go to Nebraska City and probably into the Territto see their delight at my appearance. Good-bye, darling mama. Chicago, September 3 Arrived here in safety. I find to my regret that
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