 The people now dragged us above forty yards on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked how I managed to keep my seat, I would answer, I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-hounds.  The book of adventure and peril - Side 374af Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1875Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1885 - 456 sider
...us about forty feet on the sand ; it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. 12. After repeated attempts to regain his liberty, the...cayman gave in, and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws, and firmly secured his fore-feet in the position I had held them.... | |
 | Walter Lecky - 1898 - 196 sider
...dragged us about forty yards on the sand ; it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked, how I managed to keep my...cayman gave in and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws, and firmly secured his fore-feet in the position I had held them.... | |
 | Sir Algernon West - 1900 - 516 sider
...an alligator, using the forelegs twisted on its back as a bridle ? " Should it be asked," he said, " how I managed to keep my seat, I would answer, I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-hounds." He caught a poisonous snake many feet long by the neck, and pressed the fang with a bit of stick to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 sider
...dragged us above forty yards on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's ell as a Shirt. ' But why do I talk of Death The cayman, killed and stuffed, was, like the python's skin, added to the curiosities of Walton Hall.... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1903 - 310 sider
...was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked, how I managed to keep my~seat, I would answer,—I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's foxhounds....cayman gave in, and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws, and firmly secured his fore-feet in the position I had held them.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1906 - 206 sider
...and my beast of burden further inland. ... It was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked how I managed to keep my...hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-hounds." 23. Cayman. The proper Spanish word, caiman, for alligator, "applied popularly to the alligators of... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1912 - 348 sider
...people dragged us about forty yards on the sand. It was the first and lust time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked how I managed to keep my...answer, I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox hounds. CHARLES WATEBTON. ADVENTURE WITH A PYTHON. That moment the negro next to me seized the... | |
 | 1843 - 408 sider
...dragged us above forty yards on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked, how I managed to keep my...cayman gave in, and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws, and firmly secured his fore feet in the position I had held them.... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1916 - 684 sider
...account of his ride on a crocodile is classical : It was the first and last time I ever was on a cayman's back. Should it be asked how I managed to keep my...hunted some years with Lord Darlington's foxhounds. But one may open the book on any page to be entertained by vivid and humorous descriptions. Waterton... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1916 - 674 sider
...account of his ride on a crocodile is classical : It was the first and last time I ever was on a cayman's back. Should it be asked how I managed to keep my seat, 1 would answer, — I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's foxhounds. But one may open the book... | |
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