 ... when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely stung. But they knew so well how to manage an affair of this kind, that they robbed the poor insects with the greatest ease and safety. Before...  Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa - Seite 81von William John Burchell - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1824 - 812 Seiten
...path could be found to guide us or render our travelling easier, the Hottentots sometimes, by choosieg a smoother road, were scattered at a considerable...entering a hole in the ground, which had formerly be. longed to some animal of the weasel kind. As he made signs for us to come to him, we turned that... | |
 | Rev. William Dunbar, James Duncan - 1840 - 436 Seiten
...useless destruction of the larvee or young bees still in the cells." — " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground, which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident ; and when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely... | |
 | James Duncan - 1840 - 428 Seiten
...useless destruction of the larvae or young bees still in the cells." — " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground, which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident ; and when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely... | |
 | William Jardine - 1840 - 430 Seiten
...useless destruction of the larvae or young bees still in the cells." — " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground, which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident ; and when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely... | |
 | William Jardine - 1859 - 424 Seiten
...useless destruction of the larvae or young bees still in the cells." — " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground, which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident ; and when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without bejng severely... | |
 | James F. Robinson - 1880 - 268 Seiten
...useless destruction of the larvae or young bees still in the cells." " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground which...that way fearing he had met with some accident ; and, when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely... | |
 | 1886 - 848 Seiten
...the Interior of Africa " thus describes an operation of this kind : " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident." It was the home of a recent swarm. " When the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that... | |
 | 1886 - 840 Seiten
...the Interior of Africa " thus describes an operation of this kind : " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident." It was the home of a recent swarm. " When the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that... | |
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