During his first summer on the waters of the Columbia he made Fort Vancouver his headquarters, making excursions from this Hudson Bay post in every direction.

In the summer of 1798, John Gurney took the whole of his seven daughters an excursion through parts of England and Wales.

If I'm fit to enjoy an excursion, I'm fit to work.

On our way back to camp after these first observations I planned a far-and-wide excursion for the morrow.

" Impelled by this doubt he undertook a long excursion to the westward with no result but the discomfort of several thirsty nights and an unchanging outlook across a level expanse of country bounded by an unbroken horizon.

My uncle at that time owned a trading post at Silver Lake, in the Pottawattamie country, on the Kansas river, and he arranged an excursion to that place.

But I have quite forgotten to describe our hunting excursion.

The distance, also, to which Americans might extend their excursions into the country around the ports of Simoda and Hakodate was settled; and it is observable that, at the special request of the Japanese, the Commodore named the distance, they assenting at once to that which he mentioned.

Before 1635 the Spaniards had established a fort at Zamboanga, which, although it certainly could not wholly prevent the piratical excursions against the colonies, yet considerably diminished them.

"Oh, don't let's have that proud Brandon!" exclaimed the young ladies, in consequence of which that gentleman was not invited to join the excursion.

Jane had offered to accompany Grace, as a companion in her return (it being expected Lady Chatterton would remain in the country with her daughter); and her parents appreciating her motives, permitted the excursion, with a hope it would draw her thoughts from past events.

In this valley we found a small venda, where we recruited ourselves with bread and wine, and then continued our excursion to the so- called "Great Waterfall," with which we were less astonished than we had been with the smaller one.

He arrived just as Ralph had proposed the excursion to the young girlsconsequently, some moments after the young fellow's interview with Miss Salliannaand entered with the air of a conqueror and a master.

"Well," I said, "we will finish our excursion, then.

"The weather seems so very unsettled, Mr. Montgomery," remarked the doctor, "that I am inclined to think that you had better postpone your little country excursion until a later date.

One favorite form he often assumed was that of a wolf, as he was often away on hunting excursions.

The falls of Lorette afford another pleasant excursion, not forgetting old Paul and his wifea venerable Indian chief and his squawwhom I visited, and the cleanliness of whose cottage I had great pleasure in complimenting him upon, as also upon his various medals, which extended from Château Gai down to the Exhibition of 1851.

by means of which he was to begin his excursions into Urania, and which his 'guru' sent from time to timeat first, it must be admitted, with a diligent frequencywere secret too.

The pleasures attending a rural excursion in the winter are founded on this fact, and may be explained by this principle.

I would be in bed for days, all warm from head to foot, and no one would interrupt my pleasant excursions in the world I preferred to this.

" "Well, of course, you know that wholesale hardware houses don't run salesmen's excursions to help Methodist preachers try out the effect of American history on their young parishioners, no matter how lofty the motive," and Albert Drury poked his brother in the ribs.

It ought to be the care of every lord in this house, not how to address, but how to advise his majesty; how to assist the councils of the publick, and contribute to such determinations, as may avert the calamities that impend over mankind, and stop the wild excursions of power and ambition.

Margaret has no occasion to be uneasy about Jane, who always stays with the little ones while the maids are at supper, and generally takes with her the devoted Avice, who has some delicacy of throat forbidding these evening excursions.

The Sioux never were so well supplied with blankets and butcher-knives, as when they received their reward for that massacre; never had so many prayers said and hymns sung over them, and their steamboat ride down the Minnesota and Mississippi and up the Missouri, to a point within two days' walk of the scene of their exploits, furnished them an excursion of about two thousand miles, and left them well prepared for future operations.

The arrangement included an excursion on the water, attended by the bands from the frigates, a collation, and in the evening a ball.