The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects..Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... sometimes in a circle , and sometimes divided into parties , scattering flowers over the pavement . In the intervals of the dance , they would beat time to the music , still preserving their proper order . The Romans , with their accus ...
... sometimes in a circle , and sometimes divided into parties , scattering flowers over the pavement . In the intervals of the dance , they would beat time to the music , still preserving their proper order . The Romans , with their accus ...
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... sometimes resent any constrained departure from the regularity of their course , in an odd way . It is stated , amongst * Histoire Naturelle des deux Eléphans , p . 89. Paris , 1803 . 4to . the traditionary stories of elephant sagacity ...
... sometimes resent any constrained departure from the regularity of their course , in an odd way . It is stated , amongst * Histoire Naturelle des deux Eléphans , p . 89. Paris , 1803 . 4to . the traditionary stories of elephant sagacity ...
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... sometimes go blind ; and , under that privation , the poor animal can not only collect its food , and discriminate as to its quality , by this wonderful instrument , but can travel , without much difficulty , over unequal ground , avoid ...
... sometimes go blind ; and , under that privation , the poor animal can not only collect its food , and discriminate as to its quality , by this wonderful instrument , but can travel , without much difficulty , over unequal ground , avoid ...
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... sometimes one of danger to the rider ; for the animal , re- gardless of the mohout , whom he has completely in his power , will sink his body greatly below the surface , having this faculty of breathing through the end of his trunk ...
... sometimes one of danger to the rider ; for the animal , re- gardless of the mohout , whom he has completely in his power , will sink his body greatly below the surface , having this faculty of breathing through the end of his trunk ...
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... sometimes revenge the wrongs of their race upon the settlers who have taken possession of their ancient haunts , by pulling up fruit trees , treading down gardens and corn - fields , breaking their ploughs , waggons , and so forth . I ...
... sometimes revenge the wrongs of their race upon the settlers who have taken possession of their ancient haunts , by pulling up fruit trees , treading down gardens and corn - fields , breaking their ploughs , waggons , and so forth . I ...
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Страница 97 - ... that a sufficient number of these (which may be compared to bundles of wood) might be lowered into the well to make a pile, which might be raised to the top, if the animal could be instructed as to the necessary means of laying them in regular succession under his feet. Permission having been obtained from the...