 | 1829 - 612 páginas
...and a Malay captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a...fence of palmyra leaves, and on the fourth by the but. At the door of this the two artillery-men planted themselves ; and the Malay captain got at the... | |
 | 1829 - 296 páginas
...and a Malay captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a...scene which follows took place within an enclosure, ahout twenty feet square, formed, on three sides, hy a strong fence of palmyra leaves, and on the fourth... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 1178 páginas
...artillery-men, and a Malay captain; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a...strong fence of palmyra leaves, and on the fourth by 1 the hut. At the door of this the two artillery-men p^fpted themselves; and the Malay captain got... | |
 | 1834 - 438 páginas
...we should have cut without them, аз the event will show. I was now quite ready lo attack, and шу gun came a minute afterwards. The whole scene which...at the top, to frighten the tiger out, by worrying it — an easy operation, as the huts there arc covered with cocoanut leaves. One of the artillery-men... | |
 | 1834 - 700 páginas
...and a Malay captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a...the fourth by the hut. At the door of this, the two artillery men planted themselves ; and the Malay captain got at the top, to frighten the tiger out... | |
 | 1832 - 858 páginas
...and a Malay captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a...The whole scene which follows took place within an inclosure, about twenty feet square, formed, on three sides, by a strong fence of palmyra leaves, and... | |
 | Thomas Bingley - 1839 - 324 páginas
...and a Malay captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a...strong fence of palmyra leaves, and on the fourth by the-hut. At the door of this the two artillery-men placed themselves ; and the Malay captain got on... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1843 - 578 páginas
...and a Malay captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a...square, formed on three sides by a strong fence of palmyra-leaves, and on the fourth by the hut. At the door of this, the two artillery-men planted themselves... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 páginas
...and a Malay captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a minute alterward. The whole scene which fo.llows took place within an enclosure about twenty feet square,... | |
 | 1847 - 412 páginas
...and a Malay Captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a...square, formed, on three sides, by a strong fence of palmyra-trees, and on the fourth by the hut. At the door of this the two artillery-men planted themselves... | |
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... two hogspears, were quite enough. I got a hedge-stake, and awaited my fate, from very shame. At this moment, to my great delight, there arrived from the fort an English officer, two artillery-men, and a Malay captain; and a pretty figure we should... 
