 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 704 pages
...with a degree of unreserved confidence, so opposite to the caution and timidity which had marked then- previous movements, that nothing will ever persuade...the patriarch leader. " When the poor animals had gamed possession of the kink (the leader being the last to enter), they seemed to abandon themselves... | |
 | James Greenwood - Adventure and adventurers - 1862 - 438 pages
...order t« advance, for in a moment the whole herd moved into the water with a degree of unreserved confidence so opposite to the caution and timidity...responsible authority exercised by the patriarch leader. " I watched them with great interest till they had satisfied themselves as well in bathing as drinking,... | |
 | G. Garratt - Instinct - 1862 - 462 pages
...order to advance, for in a moment the whole herd rushed into the water with a degree of unreserved confidence, so opposite to the caution and timidity...responsible authority exercised by the patriarch leader.'" If this was so much of a rational act on the part of the leading elephant, and the scheme preconcerted... | |
 | John Selby Watson - Animal intelligence - 1867 - 518 pages
...for in a moment," says Major Skinner,''the whole herd rushed to the water with a degree of unreserved confidence, so opposite to the caution and timidity...a degree of responsible authority exercised by the patriarch-leader." When elephants are in the woods in hot weather, they are often to be seen, during... | |
 | Madeline Leslie - Animals - 1864 - 180 pages
...order for all to advance, when the whole company rushed into the water with a degree of unreserved confidence so opposite to the caution and timidity...whole party, and a degree of responsible authority exerVOL. II. 7 cised by the leader. When the thirsty animals had gained possession of the tank, the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1870 - 442 pages
...order to advance, for in a moment the whole herd rushed into the water with a degree of unreserved confidence, so opposite to the caution and timidity...persuade me that there was not rational and preconcerted co-operatiou throughout the whole party, and a degree of responsible authority exercised by the patriarch... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Voyages and travels - 1873 - 518 pages
...in a moment the entire herd moved into the water with a degree of unreserved confidence so directly opposite to the caution and timidity which had marked their previous movements, that our traveller declares he will never be persuaded there was not rational and preconcerted co-operation... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1874 - 296 pages
...order to advance ; for in a moment the whole herd rushed into the water, with a degree of unreserved confidence so opposite to the caution and timidity which had marked their former movements, that nothing will ever make me think they had not deliberately settled with each... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Big game hunting - 1876 - 328 pages
...in a moment the entire herd moved into the water with a degree of unreserved confidence so directly opposite to the caution and timidity which had marked their previous movements, that our traveller declares he will never be persuaded there was not rational and preconcerted co-operation... | |
 | George John Romanes - Animal behavior - 1882 - 550 pages
...in a moment,' says Major Skinner, ' the whole herd rushed to the water with a degree of unreserved confidence so opposite to the caution and timidity...a degree of responsible authority exercised by the patriarch-leader.' 1 Mr. HL Jenkins writes to me : — What I particularly wish to observe is that... | |
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After which, having apparently satisfied himself that all was safe, he returned and obviously gave the order to advance, for in a moment the whole herd rushed into the water with a degree of unreserved confidence, so opposite to the caution and timidity... 
