When a tiger springs on an elephant, the latter is generally able to shake him off under his feet, and then woe be to him. The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying... The American Quarterly Review - Page 1461828Full view - About this book
| Reginald Heber - 1828 - 532 pages
...to him ! The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty...considerable danger both from friends and foes, for Mr. Boulderson said the scratch of a tiger was sometimes venomous, as that of a cat is said to be. But... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1828 - 564 pages
...and crushes him at once, or gives.him a kick which breaks half 1828.] Bishop Heber's India. 145 bis ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty paces. The...with. In this case, it often happens that the elephant nimself falls, from pain or from the hope of rolling on his enemy, and the people on his back are in... | |
| Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1828 - 598 pages
...to him ! The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty...however, are often dreadfully torn, and a large old tyger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with. In this case it often happens that the elephant... | |
| 1828 - 668 pages
...crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps 20 paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully torn, and a large old tyger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with. In this case it often happens that the elephant... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1829 - 546 pages
...him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty MAKCH TO RTTDERPOOR. 393 paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully...considerable danger both from friends and foes, for Mr. Boulderson said the scratch of a tiger was sometimes venomous, as that of a cat is said to be. But... | |
| James Rennie - 1829 - 438 pages
...to him. The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty...happens that the elephant himself falls, from pain, or frdm the hope of rolling on his enemy; and the people on his back are in very considerable danger both... | |
| 1830 - 614 pages
...to him ! The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty...considerable danger both from friends and foes, for Mr. Boulderson said the scratch of a tiger was sometimes venomous, as that of a cat is said 140. — vpt,... | |
| James Rennie - 1829 - 436 pages
...to him. The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty...considerable danger both from friends and foes, for Mr. Boulderson said the scratch of a tiger was sometimes venomous, as that of a cat is said to be. But... | |
| Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1844 - 336 pages
...to him! The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty...tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with, lu this case it often happens that the elephant himself falls, from pain or from the hope of rolling... | |
| Reginald Heber - 1844 - 332 pages
...to him! The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty...paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully toru, and a large old tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with. In this case it often... | |
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