 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...with distinctness, orders which are observed with the most implicit obedience by their followers. The narrative of an adventure in the great central forest toward the north of the island, which has been communicated to me by Major SKIJTN*EK, who was engaged for some time in surveying and... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 700 pages
...distinctness, orders which are observed •with the most implicit obedience by their followers. The narrative of an adventure in the great central forest toward the north of the island, which has been communicated to me by Major SKIXXER, who was engaged for some time in surveying and... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1861 - 552 pages
...communicate with distinctness, orders which are observed with the most implicit obedience by their followers. The following narrative of an adventure in the great...some time in surveying and opening roads through the thickly-wooded districts there, will serve better than any abstract description to convey an idea of... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1861 - 586 pages
...communicate with distinctness, orders which are observed with the most implicit obedience by their followers. The following narrative of an adventure in the great...the north of the island, communicated to me by Major SKINNEB, who was engaged for some time in surveying and opening roads through the thickly-wooded districts... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - Biography - 1861 - 400 pages
...complete and admirable portraiture of it, both iu its wild and domestic condition. He gives us the narrative of an adventure in the great central forest toward the north of the island, which was communicated to him by Major Skinner, who was engaged for some time in surveying and opening... | |
 | G. Garratt - Instinct - 1862 - 462 pages
...succeeded in covering his retreat to the forest." "The following narrative," relates Sir JE Tennent, " of an adventure in the great central forest toward...some time in surveying and opening roads through the thickly-wooded districts there, will serve better than any abstract description to convey an idea of... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...with distinctness, orders which are observed with the most implicit obedience by their followers. The narrative of an adventure in the great central forest, toward the north of the island, which has been communicated to me by Major Skinner, who was engaged for some time in surveying and... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1867 - 246 pages
...communicate with distinctness, orders which are observed with the most implicit obedience by their followers. The following narrative of an adventure in the great...some time in surveying and opening roads through the thickly-wooded districts there, will serve better than any abstract description to convey an idea of... | |
 | John Ferguson - Agriculture - 1893 - 536 pages
...elephants bathing, while I was surveying in the central forest, is described in Sir J. Emerson Tenaent's book, " The Wild Elephant." He writes :— The following...some time in surveying and opening roads through the thickly-wooded districts there, will serve better than any abstract description to convey an idea of... | |
 | Thomas Skinner - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 354 pages
...trunks of trees, for the capture of wild elephants. 1 Adigar, Kandiau chief. | Mahout, elephant -driver. The following narrative of an adventure in the great...some time in surveying and opening roads through the thickly-wooded districts there, will serve better thaii any abstract description to convey an idea... | |
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The following narrative of an adventure in the great central forest toward the north of the island, communicated to me by Major SKINNER, who was engaged for some time in surveying and opening roads through the thickly-wooded districts there, will serve... 