 The interest of this strange scene was not confined to the spectators ; it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd, they evinced the utmost interest in the scene. Two in particular which were...  Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical - Page 354by Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1859Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd, they evinced the utmost interest in the scene....from her fastenings and started off towards the herd, leveling a tree of considerable size, which obstructed her passage." —Vol. ii. p. 353, 354. The mode... | |
 | 1860 - 534 pages
...it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd, they evinced the utmost interest in the scene....levelling a tree of considerable size which obstructed her passage."* The scene of confusion continued for upwards of an hour after the capture. The elephants... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd, they evinced the utmost interest in the scene....levelling a tree of considerable size which obstructed her passage.' '* The scene of confusion continued for upwards of an hour after the capture. The elephants... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd, they evinced the utmost interest in the scene....from her fastenings and started off towards the herd, leveling a tree of considerable size, which obstructed her passage." —Vol. ii. p. 353, 354. The mode... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1860 - 528 pages
...it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd, they evinced the utmost interest in the scene. Two in particular which were picketed near tbe front were intensely excited, and continued tossing their heads, pawing the ground, aud starting... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1861 - 586 pages
...were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd they evinced the utmost interest. Two in particular which were picketed near the front...place, one of them fairly burst from her fastenings and rushed towards the herd, levelling a tree of considerable size which obstructed her passage.1 For upwards... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd they evinced the utmost interest in the scene....particular which were picketed near the front were intense)'' excited, and continued tossing their heads, pawing the ground, and starting as the noise... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd, they evinced the utmost interest in the scene....as the noise drew near. At length, when the grand rusk into the corral took place, one of them fairly burst from her fastenings, and started off towards... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1867 - 246 pages
...were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd they evinced the utmost interest. Two in particular which were picketed near the front...place, one of them fairly burst from her fastenings and rushed towards the herd, levelling a tree of considerable size which obstructed her passage.1 For upwards... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1871 - 838 pages
...it extended to the tame elephants which were stationed outside. At the first approach of the flying herd, they evinced the utmost interest in the scene....a tree of considerable size, which obstructed her passage." From the persecution endured from man, either for the pleasures of the chase, or that, when... | |
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