 I distinguished in every direction, I ascended more than one in the hope of at least finding some vessel containing water. Alas ! they proved to be the habitations of large communities of social grosbeaks,* those winged republicans of whose architecture...  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Strana 4261845Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1838 - Počet stránok 454
...of evening lengthened. Large troops of Ostriches running in one direction, plainly indicated that J was approaching water: and immediately afterwards,...can form a competent idea of the delight, and I may add, energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane, They equally invigorated... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - Počet stránok 602
...inhabited, I shot a hartebecst, in the hope that the smell of meat would as usual attract some straggler to the spot. But no. The keen-sighted vultures, that...can form a competent idea of the delight, and, I may add, energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane. They equally invigorated... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - Počet stránok 614
...immediately afterwards I struck into a path impressed with the footmarks of women and children—soon arriving at a nearly dry river, which running east...can form a competent idea of the delight, and, I may add, energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Merilsane. They equally invigorated... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - Počet stránok 606
...with the foot-marks of women and children — soon arriving at a nearly dry river, which, running eas and west, I at once concluded to be that of which...can form a competent idea of the delight, and, I may add, energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane. They equally invigorated... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1844 - Počet stránok 438
...inhabited, I shot a hartebeest, in the hope that the- smell of meat would as usual attract some straggler to the spot. But no. The keen-sighted vultures, that...can form a competent idea of the delight, and I may add, energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane. They equally invigorated... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1844 - Počet stránok 442
...attendants, descended in multitudes, hut no woollv-hpnrlpd npnrn nnnpnred to disuute the nrev. sembling hay-stacks; and under the impression that these had...can form a competent idea of the delight, and I may add, energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane. They equally invigorated... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1845 - Počet stránok 562
...XXXIV. NO. LXVIII. 2 F carried about me, that that course would eventually bring me to the Meritsane. After dragging my weary horse nearly the whole of...can form a competent idea of the delight, and, I may say, energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane. They equally invigorated... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1845 - Počet stránok 618
...hay-stacks, and under the impression that these had been erected in so singular a position by tl.e natives as a measure of security against the lions,...can form a competent idea of the delight, and I may say energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane. They equally invigorated... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - Počet stránok 846
...shadows of evening lengthened ; large troops of ostriches running | in one direction plainly indicating that I was approaching water — and immediately afterwards...can form a competent idea of the delight, and, I may say, energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane. They equally invigorated... | |
 | 1845 - Počet stránok 598
...singular a position by the natives as a measure of security against the lions, whose recent trucks I distinguished in every direction, I ascended more...can form a competent idea of the delight, and I may say energy, afforded me by the first draught of the putrid waters of the Meritsane. They equally invigorated... | |
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