 I stood at his head, and held it firm under my arm, one negro sup. porting the belly, and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting ten times, for the snake was too heavy for us to support him...  The pictorial cabinet of marvels - Pàgina 79per Pictorial cabinet - 1878Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 pàgines
...arm, one negro supported JOURNEY* the belly, and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting...would have taken place before morning. I had brought with me up into the forest a strong bag, large enough to contain any animal that I should want to dissect.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 pàgines
...under my arm, one negro supported the belly and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting...support him without stopping to recruit our strength.' — pp. 203, 204. This creature measured fourteen feet, and was as thick in the body as a Boa of four-and-twenty... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1828 - 362 pàgines
...towards home, and reached JOURNEY. THIRD ft after resting- ten times ; for the snake was too iirnwFV ° heavy for us to support him without stopping to recruit...would have taken place before morning. I had brought with me up into the forest a strong bag, large enough to contain any animal that I should want to dissect.... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 pàgines
...SPORTS. and the other the tail. In tins order we began to move slowly towards home, and reachedit, after resting ten times, for the snake was too heavy...putrefaction would have taken place before morning. I had bronght with me into the forest a strong bag, large enough to contain any animal that I should want... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1836 - 362 pàgines
...the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after JOURNEY. ' J THIRD resting ten times; for the snake was too heavy for...would have taken place before morning. I had brought with me up into the forest a strong ba<r, large enough to contain any animal that I should want to... | |
 | John D. Post - 1842 - 314 pàgines
...one of the negroes supported the middle, and the other the tail. 10. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it, after resting...times ; for the snake was too heavy for us to support, without stopping to recruit our strength. As we proceeded onwards with him, he fought hard for freedom,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 412 pàgines
...under my arm, one negro supported the belly, and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting...him, he fought hard for freedom, but it was all in vain.'—(pp. 202—204.) One of these combats we should have thought sufficient for glory, and for... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pàgines
...under my ami, one negro supported the belly, and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting...support him without stopping to recruit our strength. А.Ч we proceeded onwards with him, he fought hard for freedom, but it was all in vain.' — (pp.... | |
 | Robert Cruikshank - 1845 - 738 pàgines
...under my arm, one negro sup. porting the belly, and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting...would have taken place before morning. I had brought with me into the forest a strong bag large enough to contain any animal that I should want to dissect.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 pàgines
...under my arm, one negro supporting the belly, and the other the tail. In this order we began to move slowly towards home, and reached it after resting...to recruit our strength. As we proceeded onwards, he fought hard for freedom, but it was all in vain. The day was now too far spent to think of dissecting... | |
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