"Donati,.Sara.-.Into.The.Wilderness" - читать интересную книгу автора (Donati Sara)

JOHNS TOWN

Mr. Bennett, an attorney Mrs. Bennett, his wife

IN THE BUSH:

Robbie MacLachlan, Scot, former soldier, a hunter and trapper Jack
Lingo, hunter and trapper Dutch Ton, hunter and trapper Joe, an escaped
slave

GOOD PASTURE (KAHEN'TIYO):

Stone-Splitter, sachem He-Who-Dreams, faith keeper Sturdy-Heart, a
maker of canoes Spotted-Fox, a warrior and fur runner Throws-Far (also
known as Samuel Todd) Made-of-Bones, clan mother of the Wolf
Splitting-Moon, granddaughter of Made-of-Bones Two-Suns, clan mother of
the Turtle She-Remembers, clan mother of the Bear

TREES-STANDING-IN-WATER BARK TOWN

Sky-Wound-Round, sachem Bitter-Words, faith keeper

AT OAK MERE IN ENGLAND:

Augusta Merriweather, Lady Crofton, Elizabeth Middleton's aunt and
Judge Middleton's sister Cousin Amanda Spencer and her husband, William
Spencer, Viscount Durbeyfield Part 1: Discovering Paradise

Chapter 1

December 1792 Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried,
overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and
fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of
an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to
Paradise.

All around her was a world of intense green and severe white mountains,
a wilderness of deep and bountiful silence, magnificent beyond all
imagining. This was not England, that was clear enough. Nor was it
the port at New-York where she had waited for months for the long trip
north to begin, nor any of the settlements between New-York and Albany.
Her journey was nearing its end.

They had set out early from Johnstown, leaving the Mohawk Valley behind
to follow the Sacandaga river north and then west. At midday they had
eaten a cold lunch in the sleigh while the horses rested and watered,
and now, finally, Elizabeth found herself within only a few miles of a
new home, and a new life.

Across from Elizabeth, her father and brother napped fitfully under