The Wild Sports of India: With Remarks on the Breeding and Rearing of Horses, and the Formation of Light Irregular CavalrySmith, Elder and Company, 1860 - 307 páginas |
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... four hundred yards . This rifle , perhaps , is the strongest shooting one of the two . Its balls have gone through and killed a full - grown bear , while running at one hundred and twenty yards ; and , on another occa- sion , broke the ...
... four hundred yards . This rifle , perhaps , is the strongest shooting one of the two . Its balls have gone through and killed a full - grown bear , while running at one hundred and twenty yards ; and , on another occa- sion , broke the ...
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... four or five spears , perhaps a dozen , to kill him , and two or three horses may be badly wounded . Gene- rally , however , before the third rider comes up , our old friend with the grizzly beard , having wheeled his horse , will have ...
... four or five spears , perhaps a dozen , to kill him , and two or three horses may be badly wounded . Gene- rally , however , before the third rider comes up , our old friend with the grizzly beard , having wheeled his horse , will have ...
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... four branches , was with difficulty dragged by them to camp . I prefaced this story with stating that the boar is the most courageous animal in the jungle . There he was , with a broken spear in his withers - the shaft sticking up a ...
... four branches , was with difficulty dragged by them to camp . I prefaced this story with stating that the boar is the most courageous animal in the jungle . There he was , with a broken spear in his withers - the shaft sticking up a ...
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... four inches - the length of the sword blade . The Arab I was riding was a four - years ' old colt , only thirteen hands three inches high , but a pure nedjd horse . The difficulty of killing hog on hilly and very bad ground arises from ...
... four inches - the length of the sword blade . The Arab I was riding was a four - years ' old colt , only thirteen hands three inches high , but a pure nedjd horse . The difficulty of killing hog on hilly and very bad ground arises from ...
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... four inches high ; but his tusks were eight inches long . He was an old boar , and his hind feet were malformed , the hoofs turning out like horns . This accounted for his He had been constantly described to us as a lame boar , which ...
... four inches high ; but his tusks were eight inches long . He was an old boar , and his hind feet were malformed , the hoofs turning out like horns . This accounted for his He had been constantly described to us as a lame boar , which ...
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