 HUNT. 167 size than those of Bengal and Chittagong. He sat in a low howdah, with two or three guns ranged beside him, ready for action. Mr. Boulderson had also a formidable apparatus of musquets and fowling-pieces, projecting over his mohout's head.  Natural History of Quadrupeds - Página 163por James Rennie - 1839 - 324 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1837 - 488 páginas
...miles across a plain, covered with long jungle grass, from out of which quails and wild fowls rose in great numbers, and beautiful antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions. " At length, the party came to a deeper and more marshy ground, and while Mr. Boulderson was doubting... | |
 | 1837 - 490 páginas
...miles across a plain, covered with long jungle grass, from out of which quails and wild fowls rose in great numbers, and beautiful antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions. " At length, the party came to a deeper and more marshy ground, and while Mr. Bouldcrson wae doubting... | |
 | 1838 - 534 páginas
...ox, and almost as shaggy as a poodle. " Mr. Boulderson had also a formidable apparatus of muskets und fowlingpieces, projecting over his mohout's head....miles across a plain, covered with long jungly grass. Quails and wild fowl rose in great number, und beautiful antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions.... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 páginas
...had also a formidable apparatus of muskets and fowling-pieces projecting over his mohoufs (driver's) head. We rode about two miles across a plain covered...antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions." After beating up the jungle, " at last the elephants all drew up their trunks into the air, began to... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1843 - 578 páginas
...miles across a plain, covered with long jungle grass, from out of which quails and wild fowls rose in great numbers, and beautiful antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions. " At length, the party came to a deeper and more marshy ground, and while Mr. Boulderson was doubting... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1844 - 332 páginas
...projecting over his mohout's head. We rode about two miles, across a plain covered with long jungle-grass, which very much put me in mind of the country near the Cuban. Quails and wild fowl rose in great numbers, and beautiful antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions.... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1844 - 336 páginas
...Boulderson had also a formidable apparatus of muskets and fowling-pieces projecting over his mohoufs head. We rode about two miles, across a plain covered with long jungle-grass, which very much put me in mind of the country near the Cuban. Quails and wild fowl rose... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1846 - 328 páginas
...projecting over his mohout's head. We rode about two miles, across a plain covered with long jungle-grass, which very much put me in mind of the country near the Cuban. QuaUs and wild fowl rose in great numbers, and beautiful antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions.... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 páginas
...jungly grass, which put me very much in mind of the country near the Cuban. Quails and wild fowl rose in great numbers: and beautiful antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions. With them our party had no quarrel : their flesh is good for little, and they are in general favorites... | |
 | 1852 - 800 páginas
...the body of a gig, and is fastened by girths to the back of the elephant. ORIENTAL SCENES. 217 \ V head. We rode about two miles across a plain covered...antelopes were seen scudding away in all directions. At last the elephants all drew up their trunks into the air, began to roar, and stamp violently with... | |
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