Thirty Years of ShikarW. Blackwood & Sons, 1895 - 373 páginas |
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... ground ; I have seen a rider spear his own horse ; I have seen a rider spear the horse of a companion ; and any one of these accidents may occur to the novice or to him who is inexpert or careless . Nor , as a rule , is the ground over ...
... ground ; I have seen a rider spear his own horse ; I have seen a rider spear the horse of a companion ; and any one of these accidents may occur to the novice or to him who is inexpert or careless . Nor , as a rule , is the ground over ...
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... ground . I have seen one of these porcine warriors charge its foes when the spears implanted in it stood out in all directions and became weapons of offence against the spearmen who lodged them in the boar ; and even then , when ...
... ground . I have seen one of these porcine warriors charge its foes when the spears implanted in it stood out in all directions and became weapons of offence against the spearmen who lodged them in the boar ; and even then , when ...
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... ground , we were unani- mous in preferring our tally of 99 , because , as we argued , people to whom we narrated the history of the great Torrens ' hunt might be incredulous if we said the boars killed were a hundred , neither more nor ...
... ground , we were unani- mous in preferring our tally of 99 , because , as we argued , people to whom we narrated the history of the great Torrens ' hunt might be incredulous if we said the boars killed were a hundred , neither more nor ...
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... ground in close - packed swarm ; and he told how he got out an 18 - pounder cannon and loaded it almost to the muzzle with powder and No. 10 shot , and trained the gun to volley its contents into the thick of the birds , and then he ...
... ground in close - packed swarm ; and he told how he got out an 18 - pounder cannon and loaded it almost to the muzzle with powder and No. 10 shot , and trained the gun to volley its contents into the thick of the birds , and then he ...
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... ground larks , sand- martins , and many other small fowl offered to me in the name of the ortolan in twenty districts and in three provinces . The sport provided by this winged delicacy is , I need hardly say , poor ; it is in fact ...
... ground larks , sand- martins , and many other small fowl offered to me in the name of the ortolan in twenty districts and in three provinces . The sport provided by this winged delicacy is , I need hardly say , poor ; it is in fact ...
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