Sport and Travel in the Far EastHoughton Mifflin Company, 1910 - 264 pages |
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Page 67 - Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot were cruelly murdered by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhundu Panth of Bithur, and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well below, on the xvth day of July, MDCCCLVII.
Page v - So for one the wet sail arching through the rainbow round the bow, And for one the creak of snow-shoes on the crust; And for one the lakeside lilies where the bull-moose waits the cow, And for one the mule-train coughing in the dust.
Page v - Send your road is clear before you when the old Springfret comes o'er you, And the Red Gods call for you! So for one the wet sail arching through the rainbow round the bow, And for one the creak of snow-shoes on the crust; And for one the lakeside lilies where the bull-moose waits the cow, And for one the mule-train coughing in the dust. Who hath smelt wood-smoke at twilight? Who hath heard the birch-log burning? Who is quick to read the noises of the night? Let him follow with the others, for the...
Page v - He must go — go — go away from here ! On the other side the world he's overdue. 'Send your road is clear before you when the old Springfret comes o'er you, And the Red Gods call for you...
Page 67 - Bound the chancel is a row of memorial tablets, set there " to the glory of God and in memory of more than a thousand Christian people who met their deaths hard by between the 6th of June and the 15th of July, 1857.
Page 243 - My eyes were now becoming used to the darkness, and by the light of the torches which had been thrust into the tiger's cavern from underneath, I could see him in full. He lay on a ledge of rock, facing me, his green eyes shining and blinking sleepily in the light, his great striped back moving up and down as he panted from fright and anger. His face was not four feet from mine when I had come to the end of the passage, but there was little danger, since he was too much cowed by the light to charge,...
Page 234 - ... and trudged off to the rice-fields, where they worked knee-deep in water till dark. The women remained in their huts spinning, or chatted on the paths, while their babies made mud-pies and played with the hogs. Then at sunset, when the men returned from work, my courtyard became the gathering place for the evening, for the novelty of watching a white man eat, smoke and read, did not in any wise seem to pall upon them. The huntermen were next in importance and always held an admiring circle about...
Page 238 - ... was so excited that he could hardly translate, but I finally quieted him enough to learn the news; all five remaining goats, including the one over which I had sat up, had been killed, the country around was covered with blood tracks, and only one body and one head had been found. I endeavored vainly to repress a war-whoop. The preparations which ensued were such as would have convinced an observer that the village was about to make a sally against a hostile tribe — the villagers sharpening...
Page 238 - ... The morning blazed wearily till tiffin* time, and the afternoon hours dragged till evening. Then, finally, the sun sank and by seven o'clock I had the remaining four goats at their posts and, as nothing more could be done, prepared to sit up over the fifth, which was the loudest bleater, in the hopes that the tiger would pick him out for his night's kill. We found, some five yards from the goat, a suitable rock, which shaded us from the moonlight, and waited, the animal crying lustily and being...
Page 233 - ... second one or more tigers may charge out and aware that if they do, one must shoot both instantly and accurately. Under such circumstances an ordinary hole in the hillside becomes a distinctly fascinating object, as one who has had the experience must realize. But I was not to have success on this hunt nor, indeed, for many days to come, for the smoke of the torches appearing through the fissures in the rock and the sound of the spears feeling about near the exit, told that the men had passed...