 | 1828 - 588 pages
...river from Calcutta to Dacca we passed, to my surprize, a row of no less than nine or ten large and beautiful otters tethered with straw collars, and...swimming about at the full extent of their strings, and lying half in and half out of the water, others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...conclusion of BURTON'S Anatomy of Melancholy. THE OTTER. WE passed to my surprise a row of no less then nine or ten large and very beautiful otters, tethered...collars, and long strings, to bamboo stakes on the bunk. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | 1840 - 526 pages
...of the people of Pondichery, and is probably the species seen by Bishop Heber, who passed a row of nine or ten large and very beautiful otters, tethered with straw collars and long strings to bamboo slakes on the banks of the Malta Colly. • Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 698 pages
...[Received Dec. 13. 1833.] The Otter domesticated in a Degree, and employed by Man in capturing Fish. — " We passed, to my surprise, a row of no less than nine...collars and long strings to bamboo stakes on the bank (of the Matta Colly). Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in... | |
 | Thomas Boosey - 1835 - 328 pages
...Sauveurs Travels. Domesticated Fishing Otters. — We passed a row of no less than nine or ten fine otters, tethered with straw collars and long strings to bamboo stakes, on the banks of the Malta Colly. I was told that most of the fishermen kept one or two of these animals, who... | |
 | Thomas Bell - 1837 - 554 pages
...one of the Asiatic species, probably Lutra nair, (Fr. Cuv.) may be rendered similarly useful : — " We passed, to my surprise, a row of no less than nine...straw collars and long strings to bamboo stakes on the banks (of the Matta Colly). Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...keeper, and the rest arc royal property. THE OTTKR. WK passed to my surprise a row of no less then nine or ten large and very beautiful otters, tethered...collars, and long strings, to bamboo stakes on the bonk. Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of... | |
 | 1840 - 1046 pages
...of the people of Pondichery, and is probably the species seen by Bishop Heber, who passed a row of nine or ten large and very beautiful otters, tethered...straw collars and long strings to bamboo stakes on the banks of the Malta Colly. ' Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 522 pages
...of the people of Pondichery, and is probably the species seen by Bishop Heber, who passed a row of nine or ten large and very beautiful otters, tethered...straw collars and long strings to bamboo stakes on the banks of the Malta Colly. • Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying... | |
 | 1847 - 282 pages
...Otterhunting gentry of England. " We passed," continues he, "on the banks of the river, (Malta Colly,) a row of no less than nine or ten large and very beautiful...with straw collars and long strings to bamboo stakes. Some were swimming about to the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the... | |
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Colly). Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water ; others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill, whistling noise, as if in play. I was told... 
