The old forest ranger; or, Wild sports of India on the Neilgherry hills, in the jungles and on the plains |
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... present instance . The kind reception I met with , under the disguise of " The Old Forest Ranger , " has encouraged me to reprint , in a connected form , my papers on Indian Field Sports , which have appeared from time to time in the ...
... present instance . The kind reception I met with , under the disguise of " The Old Forest Ranger , " has encouraged me to reprint , in a connected form , my papers on Indian Field Sports , which have appeared from time to time in the ...
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... present my readers with a faithful sketch of some of the more exciting Field Sports of India ; and , to insure my doing so , I have confined myself almost exclusively to the description of such scenes and adventures as either my Brother ...
... present my readers with a faithful sketch of some of the more exciting Field Sports of India ; and , to insure my doing so , I have confined myself almost exclusively to the description of such scenes and adventures as either my Brother ...
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... present he serves me in the honourable capacity of Mussaulchee . ” * " Yes , " chimed in the grinning varlet , " I master's Maty Boy , -very proper , very handsome Maty Boy . - Maty business , shikart business , too much kind of ...
... present he serves me in the honourable capacity of Mussaulchee . ” * " Yes , " chimed in the grinning varlet , " I master's Maty Boy , -very proper , very handsome Maty Boy . - Maty business , shikart business , too much kind of ...
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... presents a scene of wild and savage grandeur , contrasting beautifully with the luxuriant palm groves and voluptuous sunshine of the low country , over which the eye wanders , for many leagues , till it is lost in the dreamy indistinct ...
... presents a scene of wild and savage grandeur , contrasting beautifully with the luxuriant palm groves and voluptuous sunshine of the low country , over which the eye wanders , for many leagues , till it is lost in the dreamy indistinct ...
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... present we must leave him , Sahib . It would be the act of a madman to attack him in his den . " " But the dogs , Ishmail ? ” " He will kill no more dogs , Sahib . Our three best hounds , the only ones who had courage to close with him ...
... present we must leave him , Sahib . It would be the act of a madman to attack him in his den . " " But the dogs , Ishmail ? ” " He will kill no more dogs , Sahib . Our three best hounds , the only ones who had courage to close with him ...
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afore amongst animal appeared auld Ayapah bamboo barrel bear beast beautiful better Bhurmah bison blood boar bound Brahmin brute bushes canna Captain cheroot companions Cotwall cousin cried Mansfield dashed deer devil ears elephant exclaimed Mansfield eyes fcap feel feet fire followed forest Forest Ranger frae ground hand head heard heart Heels honour horse hounds howdah ibex India Ishmail Jemmadar jungle Kamah killed lads laughing look Low Country M'Phee Mahout Maister Charles Mansfield and Charles matchlock maun Miss Kate Mons Meg morning natives Neilgherry Hills never Old Forest old Lorimer Ootacamund panther poor ravine replied Mansfield replied the Doctor rifle roar rock Sahib savage Shikarees shot shoulder side sight smiling spear sport sportsmen stag stood tent thou tiger tigress Todahs trail tree turned venison village watching Watty weapon weel whilst wild wounded young
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Стр. 239 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : — how profound The gulf ! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent, With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent LXXI.
Стр. 239 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Стр. 130 - It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie ; She shines sae bright to...
Стр. 240 - Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract, Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness...