The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects, Volume 2Charles Knight, 1831 |
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... Modes of taking wild Elephants in Asia . 87 CHAPTER V. The African Elephant . - Elephant hunts . CHAPTER VI . Domestic employment of Elephants in the East . - Training . 121 • -Docility . 145 · CHAPTER VII . PAGE Employment of Elephants ...
... Modes of taking wild Elephants in Asia . 87 CHAPTER V. The African Elephant . - Elephant hunts . CHAPTER VI . Domestic employment of Elephants in the East . - Training . 121 • -Docility . 145 · CHAPTER VII . PAGE Employment of Elephants ...
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... mode of compelling the elephant to a labour for which he is unfitted by nature : - " The King ( Aurengzebe ) was ascending the Peer - Punchal mountains , and from which a distant view of the kingdom of Kashmire is first obtained . He ...
... mode of compelling the elephant to a labour for which he is unfitted by nature : - " The King ( Aurengzebe ) was ascending the Peer - Punchal mountains , and from which a distant view of the kingdom of Kashmire is first obtained . He ...
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... mode of opera- tion ; for we do not find any part without a bone except this , that is spontaneously protruded or pro- longed , and so kept for some time * . " 66 The centre of the trunk is pierced throughout by two long canals which ...
... mode of opera- tion ; for we do not find any part without a bone except this , that is spontaneously protruded or pro- longed , and so kept for some time * . " 66 The centre of the trunk is pierced throughout by two long canals which ...
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... mode in which the elephant conveys his food to his mouth will be best understood by the follow- ing representation , which shews the animal reaching upward with his trunk . He has no power to apply his mouth to the food to be taken ...
... mode in which the elephant conveys his food to his mouth will be best understood by the follow- ing representation , which shews the animal reaching upward with his trunk . He has no power to apply his mouth to the food to be taken ...
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... is endowed with a peculiar power , without at the same time having a peculiar mode of employing it . As surely as the extraordinary scent of the lion conducts him to his prey , and the more wonderful THE ELEPHANT . 67 Triumphal elephants.
... is endowed with a peculiar power , without at the same time having a peculiar mode of employing it . As surely as the extraordinary scent of the lion conducts him to his prey , and the more wonderful THE ELEPHANT . 67 Triumphal elephants.
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Africa African elephant Alexander amongst ancient animal appears army Arrian Aurengzebe battle beasts Bernier body Cæsar carried Carthaginians century chap chariot command Corse covered Ctesias Cuvier danger described Diodorus Siculus earth elephant's Emperor employed enemy exhibited extraordinary feet female elephant fight fire foot force forests fossil gold habits head herd Hindostan horse Hottentots hundred hunters hunting immense inclosure India Indian elephant ivory keddah keeper killed king Kublai Khan length lion male elephants menageries mode Mogul mohout mounted muscles native nature obedience passage Pausanias peculiar phants Phidias Pliny pomp possessed princes proboscis quadrupeds Quatremère de Quincy remains rhinoceros riders river Roman Rome round sagacity says Semiramis shew side skull species splendour Sports statuary strength teeth terror thousand tiger tion Travels trees troops trunk tusks white elephant wild elephants wood wounded young
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Page 322 - Syria was thy merchant By reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making : They occupied in thy fairs With emeralds, purple, and broidered work, And fine linen, and coral and agate.
Page 322 - And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
Page 387 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That He who made it and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 72 - THE first shall be of the elephant, whereof there generally passeth an opinion it hath no joints; and this absurdity is seconded with another, that being unable to lie down it sleepeth against a tree; which the hunters observing, do saw it almost asunder, whereon the beast relying, by the fall of the tree falls also down itself, and is able to rise no more.
Page 186 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Page 45 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Page 288 - ... of the amphitheatre. The wealth of Asia, the arms and ensigns of so many conquered nations, and the magnificent plate and wardrobe of the Syrian queen, were disposed in exact symmetry or artful disorder. The ambassadors of the most remote parts of the earth, of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, Bactriana, India, and China, all remarkable by their rich or singular dresses, displayed the fame and power of the Roman emperor, who exposed likewise to the public view the presents that he had received, and...
Page 315 - Numidia; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basins through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper coin, the daily enjoyment of a scene of pomp and luxury which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia.
Page 170 - ... mikdembers, and the brilliant and innumerable followers in attendance : and if I had not regarded this display of magnificence with a sort of philosophical indifference, I should have been apt to be carried away by the similar flights of imagination as inspire most of the Indian poets, when they represent the elephants as conveying so many goddesses, concealed from the vulgar gaze.
Page 236 - Tartars, which remained firm, making no movement, but suffering them to approach their entrenchments. They then rushed out with great spirit and the utmost eagerness to engage; but it was soon found that the Tartar horses, unused to the sight of such huge animals, with their castles, were terrified, and wheeling about endeavoured to fly; nor could their riders by any exertions restrain them, whilst the king, with the whole of his forces, was every moment gaining ground. As soon as the prudent commander...