 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1865 - 494 ページ
...them. Physic, or what passed for it, rose in price in a still more startling manner — Holloway's pills selling at one shilling each, or a guinea per...greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained in defiance of disease, and " took their chance," — with what result the... | |
 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1865 - 526 ページ
...run through a churchyard." One new-comer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses earned past his tent during the dinner-hour of his first...greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained in defiance of disease, and " took their chance," — with what result the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 574 ページ
...dying unattended and unknown. The little levels between the stream and the base of the mountain wall, for ten miles along the valley, are so thickly studded...greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold beds, remained in defiance of disease, and "took their chance " — with what result the numerous... | |
 | Alexander Del Mar - 1880 - 410 ページ
...new-comer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner hour of his first working day, and thinking that even gold...greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained, in defiance of disease, and took their chance, with what result the numerous... | |
 | Alexander Del Mar - 1880 - 446 ページ
...new-comer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner hour of his first working day, and thinking that even gold...greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained, in defiance of disease, and took their chance, with what result the numerous... | |
 | James Platt - 1880 - 220 ページ
...so thickly studded with graves that the river appears to run through a churchyard." One new comer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner hour of his first working day, and thinking that even gold may be purchased too dearly, left... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 ページ
...are so thickly studded with graves that the river appears to run through a churchyard. One new comer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses...But the greater number, fascinated by the unusual richnsss of the gold-bed, remained in defiance of disease, and ' took their chance,' with what result... | |
 | Francis William Bain - 1893 - 148 ページ
...new-comer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner hour of his first working day, and thinking that even gold...greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold beds, remained in defiance of disease, and ' took their chance' — with what result the numerous... | |
 | Sandra Peart - 2003 - 472 ページ
...for them. Physic, or what passed for it, rose in price in a still more startling manner - Holloway's pills selling at one shilling each, or a guinea per...greater number, fascinated by the unusual richness of the gold-beds, remained in defiance of disease, and "took their chance." with what result the numerous... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1880 - 654 ページ
...selling at one Shilling each, or a guinea per box. It was a Valley of Death. 'Constitutions that hail borne the hardships of other fields broke down here,...be purchased too dearly, left the place instantly. Muny abandoned it after a somewhat longer trial. But the greater number, fascinated by the unusual... | |
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One new-comer, wiser than the rest, having counted eleven corpses carried past his tent during the dinner-hour of his first working day, and thinking that even gold may be purchased too dearly, left the place instantly. Many abandoned it after a somewhat... 