Anecdotal and Descriptive Natural HistoryGroombridge and Sons, 1872 - 184 páginas |
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12 Stamps 15 Wood Engravings Africa AGILE GIBBON animal appearance arms attack beast Bison body Borneo branches Buffalo cage callosities Camel Chimpanzee climb cloth gilt Crown 8vo domestic elegantly bound Elephant eyes fawn colour feet female Ferns ferocious flesh Foolscap 8vo fore forests Free for 12 genus Giraffe GROOMBRIDGE & SONS ground habits hair hands head height HEIR OF REDCLYFFE herds hind horns horse HUNTING Hyæna Illustrated with 15 inches Indian inhabits Jaguar keeper legs length Leopard limbs Linnæus Lion lips London mahout male Mammalia MANDRILL mane monkeys mouth Musk Ox muzzle naked native neck nose observed Orang Orang-Outan Pachydermata Panther Paternoster Row PLATE post free prey PROTELES Puma Quadrumana QUAGGA RED Fox remarkable resembling Rhinoceros says short shoulder skin SLOTH BEAR species SPECTACLED BEAR spots STORIES tail teeth thick Tiger travellers trees trunk tusks upper wild young
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Página 86 - They were then about to proceed against him as a sorcerer, when the dervise, with great calmness, thus addressed the court : "I have been much amused with your surprise, and own that there has been some ground for your suspicions ; but I have lived long and alone ; and I can find ample scope for observation even in a desert.
Página 179 - The tale is well told, the interest warmly sustained throughout, and the delineation of female character is marked by a delicate sense of moral beauty. It is a work that may be confided to the hands of a daughter by her parent."— Court Journal.
Página 86 - Most certainly he was," they replied ; "and as you have seen him so lately, and marked him so particularly, you can, in all probability, conduct us unto him." "My friends," said the dervise, " I have never seen your camel, nor ever heard of him, but from you." "A pretty story, truly," said the merchants; "but where are the jewels which formed a part of his cargo ? " "I have neither seen your camel, nor your jewels,
Página 179 - Court Journal. HOME SCENES. — " Grace Agnilar knew the female heart better than any writer of our day, and in every fiction from her pen we trace the same masterly analysis and development of the motives and feelings of woman's nature.
Página 44 - ... as possible, to join his companion in pursuit of the game shot at. Shortly after separating one heard the other fire, and, agreeably to their compact, hastened to his comrade. After searching for him for some time without effect he found his Dog dead and dreadfully torn. Apprised by this discovery that the animal shot at was large and ferocious, he became anxious for the fate of his...
Página 112 - It is true he does not throw them at a person, but casts them down vertically; for it is evident that a bough cannot be thrown to any distance from the top of a lofty tree. In one case a female Mias, on a durian tree, kept up for at least ten minutes a continuous shower of branches and of the heavy, spined fruits, as large as 32pounders, which most effectually kept us clear of the tree she was on. She could be seen breaking them off and throwing them down with every appearance of rage, uttering at...
Página 86 - I can find ample scope for observation, even in a desert. 1 knew that I had crossed the track of a camel that had strayed from its owner, because I saw no mark of any human footstep on the same route; I knew that the animal was blind...
Página 67 - Change. I was enabled also to observe the animal's mode of proceeding in the destruction of bones. The shin bone of an ox being presented to this hyaena, he began to bite off with his molar teeth large fragments from its upper extremity, and swallowed them whole as fast as they were broken off. On his reaching the medullary cavity, the bone split into angular fragments, many of which he caught up greedily...
Página 43 - ... knees, the poncho .not only covered his body, but trailed along the ground behind him. As he was thus creeping by a large bush of reeds, he heard a loud, sudden noise, between a bark and a roar: he felt something heavy strike his feet, and, instantly jumping up, he saw, to his astonishment, a large...
Página 68 - ... visit, the town absolutely carried by storm, notwithstanding defences nearly six feet high of branches of the prickly tulloh, and two donkies, -whose flesh these animals are particularly fond of, carried off, in spite of the efforts of the people. We constantly heard them close to the walls of our own town at nights; and on a gate being left partly open, they would enter and carry off any unfortunate animal that they could find in the streets.