... bludgeons became too strong to be resisted. Those who have seen a farmyard well stocked with pigs, calves, sheep, oxen, and with two or three litters of puppies with their mothers in it, and have heard them all in tumult together, may form a good... Life of Sir John Franklin and the North-west Passage - Page 38by Sir Albert Hastings Markham - 1891 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Bennett - 1865 - 710 pages
...remarks, "was very interesting to me, who knew little of their manners. Those who have seen a farm yard well stocked with pigs, calves, sheep, oxen, and with...not unamiable creatures as they were able to skin, and we then left the poor affrighted multitude to recover from the effect of our inauspicious visit."... | |
| James Bonwick - 1870 - 452 pages
...with pigs, calves, sheep, oxen, and with two or three litters of puppies, with their mothers, in it, may form a good idea of the confused noise of the seals at Cove Point. The sailors killed as many of these harmless, and not unamiable creatures, as they were... | |
| Royal Society of Tasmania - 1871 - 540 pages
...terror of the sailors' bludgeons became too strong to be resisted. Those who have seen a farm yard, well stocked with pigs, calves, sheep, oxen, and with...of the confused noise of the seals at Cone Point." Mr. Bass speaks of landing on the Patriarch. " He found the outermost island well inhabited. The various... | |
| Royal Society of Tasmania - 1872 - 154 pages
...terror of the sailors' bludgeons became too strong to be resisted. Those who have seen a farm yard, well stocked with pigs, calves, sheep, oxen, and with...of the confused noise of the seals at Cone Point." Mr. Bass speaks of landing on the Patriarch. " He found the outermost island well inhabited. The various... | |
| Henry Poland - 1892 - 456 pages
...oxen, and with two or three litters of puppies, with their mothers in it, and have heard them all in a tumult together, may form a good idea of the confused...angles ; and we then left the poor affrighted multitude to recover from the effects of our inauspicious visit." (Page cxxxiii) : " The Hair Seal appears to... | |
| Sir Ernest Scott - 1914 - 614 pages
...and have heard them all in tumult together, may form a good idea of the confusion in connection with the seals at Cone Point. The sailors killed as many...angles; and we then left the poor affrighted multitude to recover from the effect of our inauspicious visit." Flinders' observations upon the sooty petrels,... | |
| Zoological Society of London - 1875 - 838 pages
...defence of their families, until the terror of the sailors' bludgeons became too strong to be resisted. Those who have seen a farm-yard, well stocked with...angles ; and we then left the poor affrighted multitude to recover from the effect of our inauspicious visit" (p. cxxix.). "The hair-seal appears to frequent... | |
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