The Hunting Grounds of the Old WorldSaunders, Otley & Company, 1860 - 520 páginas |
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... , a village about twelve miles distant , where our tents and best cross - country horses had been des- patched the day previous . Our shekarries and beaters had marked down several sounders ( herds ) of 28 The Hunting Grounds.
... , a village about twelve miles distant , where our tents and best cross - country horses had been des- patched the day previous . Our shekarries and beaters had marked down several sounders ( herds ) of 28 The Hunting Grounds.
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Henry Astbury Leveson. beaters had marked down several sounders ( herds ) of hog in a long strip of low jungle , contiguous to some tolerable riding ground , and had formed a chain , so as to prevent them making their way back into the ...
Henry Astbury Leveson. beaters had marked down several sounders ( herds ) of hog in a long strip of low jungle , contiguous to some tolerable riding ground , and had formed a chain , so as to prevent them making their way back into the ...
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... beaters ) to say that the hogs were undisturbed , and that all was in readiness . The tree under which our encampment was pitched must have been of great age , for under- neath were the ruins of a small Hindoo temple , which bore traces ...
... beaters ) to say that the hogs were undisturbed , and that all was in readiness . The tree under which our encampment was pitched must have been of great age , for under- neath were the ruins of a small Hindoo temple , which bore traces ...
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... beaters as he can , to be ready at the earliest dawn to - morrow , and we will try and beat him out . To - day we will follow up his trail , and visit some of the places where he has been lately seen ; perhaps by good luck we may come ...
... beaters as he can , to be ready at the earliest dawn to - morrow , and we will try and beat him out . To - day we will follow up his trail , and visit some of the places where he has been lately seen ; perhaps by good luck we may come ...
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... beaters to be collected from the neighbouring villages , and ordered them to be ready to take the field before dawn the following morning , we went out with a - party of villagers to a well , about a hundred and fifty yards from the ...
... beaters to be collected from the neighbouring villages , and ordered them to be ready to take the field before dawn the following morning , we went out with a - party of villagers to a well , about a hundred and fifty yards from the ...
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amongst animal appeared Arab arrived bamboo bank Bashi-Bazouk bear beaters beautiful bison Bône Bowani brute bush carried cheroots Chineah Circassian colour coolies couple covered dark dead deep deer dense dogs double rifle dubties elephants eyes feet fell fire followed forest gang gave Googooloo Gooroo Gooty grunt hand head heard herd hill horses huge ibex Indian jungle killed kind Kistimah knew let drive light lion look low country matchlocks miles morning mountain mounted Mulchers Naga nautch nearly night noise nullah Ooty paces party passed peafowl Philippeville pugs ravine rest returned rifle roar rock rolled round route sambur seen shekar shekarry short distance shot shoulder side skin soon spoor sport spot steep strange tent tiger took trail tree tribe Trichinopoly turned tusker village Westley Richards whilst wild woods wounded
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