The Forests of Upper India and Their InhabitantsE. Arnold, 1902 - 344 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... bears and tigers . Colonel Ramsay used to say he had seen a herd of wild elephants climbing the steep slopes of China , and that he had had such shooting as he had nowhere else found the equal of . In those early days a very steep path ...
... bears and tigers . Colonel Ramsay used to say he had seen a herd of wild elephants climbing the steep slopes of China , and that he had had such shooting as he had nowhere else found the equal of . In those early days a very steep path ...
Pàgina 30
... bear might be taken in his snare , fastened to a sapling which had sprung back and tightened on its paw . He could set great beams weighted with rocks to fall on an unwary tiger ; but a gun was not much in his line , and , indeed , he ...
... bear might be taken in his snare , fastened to a sapling which had sprung back and tightened on its paw . He could set great beams weighted with rocks to fall on an unwary tiger ; but a gun was not much in his line , and , indeed , he ...
Pàgina 50
... bears , gooral , and the jerow , or great sambur deer . The underwood in these regions consists of ringal , or hill bamboo * ( Arundinaria ) , growing so thickly that it is nearly impossible to get through it . These bamboos are very ...
... bears , gooral , and the jerow , or great sambur deer . The underwood in these regions consists of ringal , or hill bamboo * ( Arundinaria ) , growing so thickly that it is nearly impossible to get through it . These bamboos are very ...
Pàgina 54
... bear 5,000 feet below , crossing the valley , a mere black speck on the snow and gray rocks . Tracks of therina were now numerous , and silence was necessary not to alarm the watchful sentinels of the flock now reposing in some safe ...
... bear 5,000 feet below , crossing the valley , a mere black speck on the snow and gray rocks . Tracks of therina were now numerous , and silence was necessary not to alarm the watchful sentinels of the flock now reposing in some safe ...
Pàgina 57
... by junipers and aged birch , and where tracks of bears and snow leopards were often visible . The atmosphere became gradually colder . Fleecy white clouds began to gather about the hilltops . Out of the silence there AMONG THE SNOW PEAKS ...
... by junipers and aged birch , and where tracks of bears and snow leopards were often visible . The atmosphere became gradually colder . Fleecy white clouds began to gather about the hilltops . Out of the silence there AMONG THE SNOW PEAKS ...
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