 | 1851 - 354 pages
...pachyderm on more than one occasion. After repeatedly wounding another large cow, Mr. Cumming remarks, ' this last shot set her in motion once more, and she...great whale, setting the whole river in an uproar.' The bald result of many hippopotamuses slain, and of more grievously wounded, was the addition of a... | |
 | 1851 - 606 pages
...pachyderm on more than one occasion. After repeatedly wounding another large cow, Mr. Gumming remarks, ' this last shot set her in motion once more, and she...water in the most extraordinary manner, disappearing pearing for a few seconds and then coming up like a great whale, setting the whole river in an uproar.'... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1851 - 604 pages
...more, and she commenced struggling in the water in the most extraordinary manner, disappearing pearing for a few seconds and then coming up like a great whale, setting the whole river in an uproar.' The bald result of many hippopotamuses slain, and of more grievously wounded, was the addition of a... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1852 - 622 pages
...this resting-place I started her with one shot in the shoulder and another in the side of the head; this last shot set her in motion once more, and she...middle of the forehead. This proved a most magnificent specimea t>f the female of the wondrous hippopotamus, an animal with which I was extremely surprised... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1852 - 620 pages
...this resting-place I started her with one shot in the shoulder and another in the side of the head ; this last shot set her in motion once more, and she...few seconds, and then coming up like a great whale, Betting the whole river in an uproar. Presently she took away down the stream, holding to the other... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1855 - 422 pages
...this resting-place I started her with one shot in the shoulder and another in the side of the head ; this last shot set her in motion once more, and she...other side, but, again returning, I finished her with CHAP. XXV. SEA-COW SHOOTING. 189 a shot in the middle of the forehead. This proved a most magnificent... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon Cumming - 1856 - 434 pages
...bullet in the shoulder and another in the side of the head ; this last shot set her in motion, when she commenced struggling in the water in the most...up like a great whale, setting the whole river in a vortex. Presently she took away down the stream, but, returning, I killed her with a shot in the... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1860 - 650 pages
...this resting-place I started her with one shot in the shoulder and another in the side of the head ; this last shot set her in motion once more, and she...returning, I finished her with a shot in the middle ol the forehead. This proved a most magnificent specimen of the female of the wondrous hippopotamus,... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1862 - 492 pages
...resting-place I at once started her with a shot in the shoulder, and another in the side of the head ; the last shot set her in motion once more, and she commenced...whole river in an uproar. Presently she took away down stream, holding to the other side ; but again returning, I finished her with a shot in the middle of... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1862 - 438 pages
...then coming up like a great whale, setting the whole river in an uproar. Presently she took away down stream, holding to the other side ; but again returning,...finished her with a shot in the middle of the forehead. She was a magnificent specimen of sea-cow, and was altogether more lively and interesting than certain... | |
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I started her with one shot in the shoulder and another in the side of the bead: this last shot set her in motion once more, and she commenced struggling in the water in the most extraordinary manner, disappearing for a few seconds, and then coming up... 