* A few years since the annual charge for a cab license was very much reduced, and the difference between the six and seven
days' cabs was abolished.
Daylight won across Chilcoot that same
day, dropping down five hundred feet in the darkness and the flurrying snow to Crater Lake, where he camped.
In journeying eastward he had gone towards the sun, and the
days therefore diminished for him as many times four minutes as he crossed degrees in this direction.
I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was 'Would God it were evening!' It was no
day of rest, but a
day of texts, of catechisms (Watts'), of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.
A stay of one
day will be made here, and the voyage continued to Madeira, which will be reached in about three
days.
792-799) On the great twentieth, in full
day, a wise man should be born.
The next
day brought them to the banks of a beautiful little stream, running to the west, and fringed with groves of cottonwood and willow.
I sold my farm on the Yadkin, and what goods we could not carry with us; and on the twenty-fifth
day of September, 1773, bade a farewel to our friends, and proceeded on our journey to Kentucke, in company with five families more, and forty men that joined us in Powel's Valley, which is one hundred and fifty miles from the now settled parts of Kentucke.
Glinicke, four
days for being too eager a spectator of a row."
One reason for this was that any one who worked in a coal-mine was always unclean, at least while at work, and it was a very hard job to get one's skin clean after the
day's work was over.
The working part of this
day and of the next were wholly employed in making my table, for I was yet but a very sorry workman, though time and necessity made me a complete natural mechanic soon after, as I believe they would do any one else.
After a while they marched off, but they saluted us with five arrows at their parting, which wounded a horse so that it disabled him, and we left him the next
day, poor creature, in great need of a good farrier.