 | Early English newspapers - 1823 - 750 pages
...from Captain Franklin, on Buffalo hunting, vol. xct. ip 4. arms of him who curries the head. IJoti. hunters have a fillet of white skin round their foreheads, and the foremost has a strip of the same kind round his wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting... | |
 | Youth - 1824 - 504 pages
...the animal. — His comrade follows treading exactly in his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project...foreheads, and the foremost has a strip of the same kind round his wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting... | |
 | John Franklin - Arctic regions - 1824 - 426 pages
...to the animal. His comrade follows treading exactly in his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project...foreheads, and the foremost has a strip of the same kind round his wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting... | |
 | John Franklin - Arctic regions - 1824 - 426 pages
...to the animal. His comrade follows treading exactly in his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project...foreheads, and the foremost has a strip of the same kind round his wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting... | |
 | 1825 - 864 pages
...footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project under the arme of him who carries the head. Both hunters have a fillet...foreheads, and the foremost has a strip of the same kind round his wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting... | |
 | Sir John Richardson, William Swainson, William Kirby - Zoology - 1829 - 418 pages
...to the animal. His comrade follows treading exactly in his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project...wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly but setting them down somewhat suddenly, after the manner of a deer, and always... | |
 | James Rennie - Elephants - 1829 - 438 pages
...to the animal. His comrade follows, treading exactly in his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project...wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting them down somewhat suddenly, after the manner of a deer, and always... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 1178 pages
...to the animal. His comrade follows, treading exactly in his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project...wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting them down somewhat suddenly, after the manner of a deer, and always... | |
 | John Davidson Godman - Mammals - 1831 - 394 pages
...to the animal. His comrade follows, treading exactly in his footsteps, and holding the guns of both in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project...foreheads, and the foremost has a strip of the same kind around his wrists. They approach the herd by degrees, raising their legs very slowly, but setting... | |
 | Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - Fashion - 1832 - 508 pages
...the animul. His coiuraile follows and treads exactly in his footsteps, and holding the guns of hoth in a horizontal position, so that the muzzles project...who carries the head. Both hunters have a fillet of while skin round Iheir fori-beads, and the foremost has a stripe of the name round his wrists. They... | |
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... carrying in one hand the horns and part of the skin of the head of a deer, and in the other a small bundle of twigs, against which he, from time to time, rubs the horns, imitating the gestures peculiar to the animal. His comrade follows treading exactly... 
