 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 626 Seiten
...are said to resent with a push of their horns any delay in gratifying their wishes.' ' June 27. — We passed, to my surprise, a row of no less than nine...collars and long strings, to Bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 Seiten
...are said to resent with a push of their horns any delay in gratifying their wishes.' ' June 27. — We passed, to my surprise, a row of no less than nine...collars and long strings, to Bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming' about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1828 - 564 Seiten
...and the fishing-boats mooring under it in great numbers, give a pleasing air of life to the scene. We passed, to my surprise, a row of no less than nine...collars, and long strings to bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 608 Seiten
...are said to resent with a push of their horns any delay in gratifying their wishes.' * June 87. — We passed, to my surprise, a row of no less than nine...collars and long strings, to Bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1828 - 412 Seiten
...high and precipitous, wooded, and populous. "Here," says the Bishop, " we passed a row of not fewer than nine or ten large and very beautiful otters,...straw collars and long strings to bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | 1828 - 588 Seiten
...river from Calcutta to Dacca we passed, to my surprize, a row of no less than nine or ten large and beautiful otters tethered with straw collars, and long strings, to bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, and lying half in and half out... | |
 | Reginald Heber - 1829 - 252 Seiten
...are said to resent with a push of their horns any delay in gratifying their wishes.' ' June 27. — We passed, to my surprise, a row of no less than nine...collars and long strings, to Bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | Leonard Crocker Bowles - 1831 - 372 Seiten
...salt. ' We passed to tny surprise a rc-w of no less than nine or ten large and very beautiful oilers, tethered with straw collars and long strings to bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | 1833 - 814 Seiten
...conclusion of BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy. THE OTTER. WE passed to my surprise a row of no less then nine or ten large and very beautiful otters, tethered...collars, and long strings, to bamboo stakes on the bank. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | 1840 - 526 Seiten
...of the people of Pondichery, and is probably the species seen by Bishop Heber, who passed a row of nine or ten large and very beautiful otters, tethered with straw collars and long strings to bamboo slakes on the banks of the Malta Colly. • Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings,... | |
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Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water; others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise, as if in play. I was told... 
