Category: Historical Novels
The embarkation--First taste of salt water--Sea-sickness--Intestine dissensions--The passengers--Alsatians--The Oldenburghers and their wooden shoes--A calm--Fate of the wooden shoes--A child overboard--Capture of a shark--A storm--Effects of the storm--Death of a passenger--T...
As the handsome steamer, panting, foamed up the splendid Hudson River, the Germans were never tired of viewing the wonderfully beautiful, yet grand landscape, which, in all its...
11. CHAPTER I.The majority of the intending passengers by the new and smart bark, the "Hoffnung," Commander Wellbach, bound for New York, were assembled at Meier's, the host of the Hull Arms...
14. CHAPTER IV.He who awaits the coming morning in a warm, soft bed, in a well-built house, cares little whether it rains and storms without, or whether the sun darts his first rays in a clear...
12. CHAPTER II.Hotly and oppressively did the sun shine down upon the mirror-like surface of Staaten Island Bay, the next day, when the boat, containing the steerage passengers of the Hoffnung...
17. CHAPTER VII.Wolfgang, Herbold, and the elder Siebert, had gone off to the hills, in order to purchase from a farmer there, whom Wolfgang knew, such horses and cattle as they stood in need o...
19. CHAPTER IX."Massa!" said the mulatto, after he had rowed awhile, till large drops of sweat rolled down his forehead--"massa, this is confounded hard work! Shall we drink a drop?--the bottl...
15. CHAPTER V.We have almost too long neglected a principal person in our narrative, Young Werner; we left him sadly musing on the banks of the beautiful Hudson River, and must now return to...
20. CHAPTER X.We must now pass over a period of nearly a year, and I will merely relate, in few words, what took place in the settlement and its neighbourhood in the interim.
18. CHAPTER VIII.Werner was sitting upon the narrow gallery which surrounded the Boiler-deck of the Diana,[24] and Schwarz had taken his seat beside him, on a green-varnished camp-stool, which h...
16. CHAPTER VI.And how were the settlers getting on in the meantime? Had they reconciled themselves to their new position? Had they forgiven Dame Fortune for having cast their lot out in a woo...
3. CHAPTER III.Scenery of the Hudson--The haunted island--A night on the Hudson--Utica--A "railway hotel" repast--The Erie canal--A name for the future town--The canal bridges--The first death...
4. CHAPTER IV.A night in a shanty--The watchman's horn--The woodsman's hut--Death in the woods--The forest burial-place--A clearing on the Mississippi--A desolate scene--The "river" and the "...
2. CHAPTER II.The "Switzer's home"--Wonders of New York--"Five hundred journeymen wanted!"--A civil countryman--The future settlement--An adventure on the Quay--"The Switzer's home"--A night'...
1. CHAPTER I.The embarkation--First taste of salt water--Sea-sickness--Intestine dissensions--The passengers--Alsatians--The Oldenburghers and their wooden shoes--A calm--Fate of the wooden...
7. CHAPTER VII.Purchase of horses and cattle--Backwoods hospitality--The wolf and the sheep--"Salting" cattle--Elbow-room in the woods--"Westward Ho!"--Farming in the Backwoods--"Chicken fixin...
10. CHAPTER X.A new home--The old bachelor--A ride through the woods--The deserted pastor--The break up of the colony--The pastor's removal--Bringing home the bride--Two households arranged--...
5. CHAPTER V.Plans for the future--How to "get along" in America--Philadelphia--The Quaker City--Points of the compass--Letters of introduction--Steam-voyage to New Orleans--Approach to the...
8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER IX.6. CHAPTER VI.