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So much Bean grasped. The terminology of the author was more difficult. When you have chiefly learned to write, "Your favour of the 11th inst. came duly to hand and in reply we beg to state " it is confusing to be switched to such words as "anthropogenesis" and to chapter headings like "Substituting Variable Quantities for Fixed Extraordinary Theoretic Possibilities."
SIR, On the 4th inst. the enemy evacuated Williamsburg where some stores fell into our hands, and retired to this place under the cannon of their shipping. Next morning we advanced to Bird's tavern, and a part of the army took post at Norrel's mill about nine miles from the British camp. The 6th I detached an advanced corps under Gen. Wayne with a view of reconnoitering the enemy's situation.
The following letter, which he wrote me in reply, is, like all I ever got from him, full of love, tenderness, and good, sensible advice: "My Dear Son: I did not receive until yesterday your letter of the 8th inst. I regret very much having missed seeing you still more to hear that you have been suffering from intermittent fever.
Elk, March the 8th, 1781. My dear general, Your letter of the 1st inst. did not come to hand until last evening, and I hasted to answer to its contents, though I should, in a few hours, be better able to inform you of my movements.~ From what I hear of the difficulties to convoy us down the bay, I very much apprehend that the winds will not permit any frigate to come up.
GENERAL: I received yesterday, at the hands of Captain Durham, aide-de-camp, your letter of the 25th inst., and hasten to reply. Captain Durham has gone to the mouth of White River, en route for Little Rock, and the other officers who accompanied him have gone up to Cairo, as I understand, to charter twenty-five steamboats for the Red River trip.
Clark set out early this morning and continued his rout to the indian camp at the entrance of fish Creek; here he halted about an hour; the indians gave himself and party some boiled salmon and hurries. these people appeared extreemly hospitable tho poor and dirty in the extreem. he still pursued the track up the river by which he had decended and in the evening arrived at the bluff on the river where he had encamped on the 21st Inst. it was late in the evening before he reached this place. they formed their camp, and Capt.
"Treasure" is well, notwithstanding all predictions on my folly in his dress. Philadelphia, June 16, 1803. No letter by this mail; being the fourth omission and violation of promise since the 1st inst. The birthday must be kept. It shall be "honoured by my presence."
Quoted from Frazer, Taboo and the Perils of the Soul. Dawson, James. George Robertson. Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide, 1881. Citation from Latin note to Chap. Tregear, Edward. The Maoris of New Zealand. Journal of the Anthropological Institute, v. xix, 1889. Armit, Capt. W.E. Customs of the Australian Aborigines. Jour. Anthr. Inst., ix, 1880, p. 459. See also .
"INTREPIDITY. Yarmouth jetty presented an extra-ordinary and thrilling spectacle on Thursday, the 8th inst., about one o'clock. The sea raged frantically, and a ship's boat, endeavouring to land for water, was upset, and the men were engulfed in a wave some thirty feet high, and struggling with it in vain.
Taylor, four hundred in number, part of Henry's, Posey's and Alexander's brigades, amounting in all to 1300 men, and immediately fell upon the trail of the enemy, and pursued it by a forced march, through a mountainous and difficult country, till the morning of the 2d inst., when we came up with his main body on the left bank of the Mississippi, nearly opposite the mouth of the Ioway, which we attacked, defeated and dispersed, with a loss on his part of about a hundred and fifty men killed, thirty-nine women and children taken prisoners the precise number could not be ascertained, as the greater portion was slain after being forced into the river.
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