 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 458 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, I let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind ; then spurring my...staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust.1 The 1 This magnificent animal is by far the largest of all the antelope tribe, exceeding a large ox in... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 336 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, I let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind ; then spurring my...the eland staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust.* The two Baquaines soon made their appearance, and seemed delighted at my success. Having kindled... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1850 - 340 sider
...other barrel behind his shoulder, when the eland staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust.* The two Baquaines soon made their appearance, and...delighted at my success. Having kindled a fire, they cut oat steaks, which they roasted on the embers: I also cooked a steak for my* This magnificent animal... | |
 | 1851 - 604 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, I let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind ; then spurring my...the eland staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust. This magnificent animal is by far the largest of all the antelope tribe, exceeding a large ox... | |
 | 1851 - 354 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, 1 let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind; then spurring my...the eland staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust. This magnificent animal is by far the largest of all the antelope tribe, exceeding a large ox... | |
 | 1852 - 610 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, I let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind ; then spurring my...eland staggered for a moment, and subsided in the dust." Far happier is the fate of the five fine animals in the gardens. They are in a new building,... | |
 | 1851 - 484 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, I let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind ; then spurring my...the eland staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust. The two Baquaines soon made their appearance, and seemed delighted at my success. Having kindled... | |
 | 1853 - 498 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, I let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind ; then spurring my...the eland staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust. The two Baquaines soon made their appearance, and seemed delighted at my success. Having kindled... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon Cumming - 1856 - 434 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, I let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind ; then spurring my...the eland staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust. This magnificent animal is by far the largest of all the antelope tribe, exceeding a large ox... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1860 - 650 sider
...plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder, I let fly at the gallop, and mortally wounded him behind ; then spurring my...the eland staggered for a moment and subsided in the dust.* The two Baquaines soon made their appearance, and seemed delighted at my success. Having kindled... | |
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Long streaks of foam now streamed from his mouth, and a profuse perspiration had changed his sleek gray coat to an ashy blue. Tears trickled from his large dark eye, and it was plain that the eland's hours were numbered. Pitching my rifle to my shoulder,... 
