 ... every antelope in South Africa has literally to run for its life once in every one or two days upon an average, and that he starts or gallops under the influence of a false alarm many times in a day."* So it is with the savage ; he is always suspicious,...  Savage Survivals - Page 131by John Howard Moore - 1916 - 191 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 560 pages
...an opinion, believes that the life of all beasts in their wild state is an exceedingly anxious one ; that " every antelope in South Africa has literally to run for its life once in every one or two days upon an average, and that he starts or gallops under the influence of... | |
 | 1870 - 942 pages
...believes, we are told, that the life of all beasts in their wild state is an exceedingly anxious one; that "every antelope in South Africa has literally to run for its life once in every one or two days upon an average, and that he starts or gallops under the influence of... | |
 | Sir Edward Bruce Hamley - Animal welfare - 1872 - 104 pages
...believes, we are told, that the life of all beasts in their wild state is an exceedingly anxious one ; that " every antelope in South Africa has literally to run for its life once in every one or two days upon an average, and that he starts or gallops under the influence of... | |
 | James Paterson - Civil rights - 1877 - 538 pages
...1 A traveller has well observed, that the life of a wild beast is one of constant fear and anxiety. Every antelope in South Africa has literally to run for its life once in every two days, and many times in each day starts or gallops under a false alarm. — Trans.... | |
 | Charles De Berard Mills - Folklore - 1888 - 302 pages
...an opinion, believes that the life of all beasts in this wild state, is an exceedingly anxious one, that "every antelope in South Africa, has literally to run for its life, once in every one or two days upon an average, and that she starts or falls prone on the influence... | |
 | Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr - American periodicals - 1915 - 802 pages
...enemy by the feeling of fear. But the two feelings are entirely different from each other, even though they may be aroused by the same object. The world...sleeping. Men originally lived in this state of constant fear. They were always in danger of running into enemies of some kind — not only during their wanderings... | |
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