 | 1840 - 458 sider
...horns, teeth, and hind legs, whilst the females try to overset the boat by getting their fore feet over the gunnel ; if they succeed in this the hunter...accidents very rarely occur. A good hunter may kill one hundred or more in less than half an hour. When the herd is large, and gets into disorder, it often... | |
 | 1841 - 306 sider
...horns, teeth, and hind legs, whilst the females try to overset the boat by getting their fore feet over the gunnel ; if they succeed in this, the hunter...accidents very rarely occur. A good hunter may kill one hundred or more in le^s than half an hour. When the herd is lurge, and gets into disorder, it often... | |
 | Ferdinand Petrovich baron Wrangel - 1841 - 328 sider
...the gunwale ; and if they succeed in this, the hunter is almost certainly lost, for it is scarcely possible that he should extricate himself from the...great that accidents very rarely occur. A good hunter will kill 100 or more in less than half an hour. It often happens, when the herd is large and gets... | |
 | 1842 - 740 sider
...horns, teeth, and hind legs, whilst the females try to overset the boats by getting their fore feet over the gunnel. If they succeed in this the hunter...these people is so great, that accidents very rarely occnr. A good hunter may kill 100 of more in less than half an hour. When the herd is large and gets... | |
 | 1845 - 356 sider
...horns, teeth, and hind legs, whilst the females try to overset the boat by getting their fore feet over the gunnel ; if they succeed in this, the hunter...accidents very rarely occur. A good hunter may kill one hundred or more in less than half an hour. When the herd is large, and gets into disorder, it often... | |
 | Wonders - 1847 - 444 sider
...the females try to overset the boat, by getting their fore feet over the gunnel ; if they succeed, the hunter is lost, for it is hardly possible that...skill of these people is so great, that accidents rarely occur. A good hunter may kill a great number in an hour. When the herd is large, and gets into... | |
 | William John Gordon - 1907 - 464 sider
...hind legs, whilst the females try to overset the boat by getting their fore-feet over the gunwale ; if they succeed in this the hunter is lost, for it...accidents very rarely occur. A good hunter may kill a hundred or more in less than half an hour. When the herd is large, and gets into disorder, it often... | |
 | 1842 - 882 sider
...horns, teeth, and hind legs, whilst the females try to overlet the boats by getting their fore feet over the gunnel. If they succeed in this the hunter...often happens that their antlers become entangled with ench other ; they are then unable to defend themselves, and the business is much easier. Meanwhile,... | |
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It is no easy thing to keep the light boat afloat among the dense crowd of the swimming deer, which, moreover, make considerable resistance ; the males with their horns, teeth, and hind legs, whilst the females try to overset the boat by getting their... 