The Forests of Upper India and Their InhabitantsE. Arnold, 1902 - 344 pàgines |
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Pàgina xii
... elephant without feeling the sun , and to camp out in all seasons of intense heat on the plains and of intense cold on the highest hills in the world , without taking fever , and to be always ready for a long march on foot , horse , or ...
... elephant without feeling the sun , and to camp out in all seasons of intense heat on the plains and of intense cold on the highest hills in the world , without taking fever , and to be always ready for a long march on foot , horse , or ...
Pàgina 4
... elephants , when the jungle fires have cleared out the luxuriant undergrowth which springs up in the rains . It is the home of every wild animal , from the elephant downwards . Troops of great white langur apes , with long tails and ...
... elephants , when the jungle fires have cleared out the luxuriant undergrowth which springs up in the rains . It is the home of every wild animal , from the elephant downwards . Troops of great white langur apes , with long tails and ...
Pàgina 6
... elephant creepers and bright flowering begonias , followed by berberis and every sort of shrub and fern . Orchids hang from the tree - stems in quaint fashion , and the dwarf date - palm forms a graceful undergrowth . The sunny sides of ...
... elephant creepers and bright flowering begonias , followed by berberis and every sort of shrub and fern . Orchids hang from the tree - stems in quaint fashion , and the dwarf date - palm forms a graceful undergrowth . The sunny sides of ...
Pàgina 9
... 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 had been engineered up the face of the precipice from the Juli side , up ...
... 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 had been engineered up the face of the precipice from the Juli side , up ...
Pàgina 25
... elephant - creepers , the track was easily visible . The spaniels , Ruby and Flora , who had rushed ahead , soon returned yelping , and skulked to their master's heels . At last the dead body was found by the stream , terribly mangled ...
... elephant - creepers , the track was easily visible . The spaniels , Ruby and Flora , who had rushed ahead , soon returned yelping , and skulked to their master's heels . At last the dead body was found by the stream , terribly mangled ...
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