Deck and port, or, Incidents of a cruise in the United States frigate Congress to California : with sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco (1850)
d listened ; her eye fell on his ; she heard the bird. Nature triumphs over bereavements through those we love and who still survive. Tuesday, March 17. The Indian mother still ad- heres to the primitive method of carrying her child. Instead of supporting it in her arms, with the un healthful… … When hunger overtakes it she will feel a slight pull on one of the long braids in which her hair falls over its form ; and when she takes it out of this travelling cradle to nurse it, there is something new and fresh in its first look : true, it has not been out of her sight
Congress (Frigate : 1841-1862) · Voyages to the Pacific coast · Travel
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