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pages 332-333

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025fk http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,410
Title pages 332-333
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-07-20
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description escaped disaster and his close call impelled him to blame the half-breed girls whom he has likened to the fabled enchantress of the Rhine, Lorelei, who with her siren songs wantonly led men on to destruction. The girls were misjudged, for they were honestly trying to divert Freeman from danger and into the safe channel that exists at Squally Hook, as my experience at the same rapids will prove. From the lay of things at Squally Hook it was apparent to me that the Washington shore was the one...

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