 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 728 pages
...from the vicinity of Kaudy, about two feet in length, was a gentle and affectionate creature, which, after wandering over the house in search of ants,...double that length, was caught in the jungle near Cliilaw, and brought to me in Colombo. I had always understood that the pengolin was unable to climb... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1860 - 698 pages
...length, from the vicinity of Kandy, was a gentle and affectionate creature, which, after wrandering over the house in search of ants, would attract attention...climb trees ; but the one last mentioned frequently ascended a tree in my garden, in search of ants, and tliis it effected by means of its hooked feet,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 630 pages
...after wandering over the house in seareh of ants, would attract attention to its wants by elimbing up my knee, laying hold of my leg with its prehensile tail." There is the buffalo in Ceylon, and there are the oxen, used for ploughing and for treading out the... | |
 | John George Wood - Natural history - 1865 - 842 pages
...from the vicinity of Kandy, about two feet in length, was a gentle and affectionate creature, which after wandering over the house in search of ants,...wants by climbing up my knee, laying hold of my leg by its prehensile tail The other, more than double that length, was caught in the jungle near Chilaw,... | |
 | John George Wood - Animal behavior - 1870 - 822 pages
...from the vicinity of Kandy, about two feet in length, was a gentle and affectionate creature, which after wandering -over the house in search of ants,...wants by climbing up my knee, laying hold of my leg by its prehensile tail The other, more than double that length, was caught in the jungle near Chilaw,... | |
 | James Johonnot - Zoology - 1887 - 242 pages
...from the vicinity of Kandy, about two feet in length, was a gentle and affectionate creature, which, after wandering over the house in search of ants, would attract attention to its wants by climbing on my knee, laying hold of my leg by its prehensile tail. I had always understood that the pangolin... | |
 | American Oriental Society - Oriental philology - 1897 - 432 pages
...about two feet in length, from the vicinity of Kandy, was a gentle and affectionate creature, which, after wandering over the house in search of ants,...jungle near Chilaw, and brought to me in Colombo. 1860 TKNNENT, Sketches of the natural hist, of Ceylon, p. 46, 47. Of the habits of the pengolin I found... | |
 | American Oriental Society - Electronic journals - 1897 - 226 pages
...about two feet in length, from the vicinity of Kandy, was a gentle and affectionate creature, which, after wandering over the house in search of ants,...jungle near Chilaw, and brought to me in Colombo. 1860 TENNENT, Sketches of the natural hist, of Ceylon, p. 46, 47. Of the habits of the pengolin I found... | |
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Kandy, about two feet in length, was a gentle and affectionate creature, which, after wandering over the house in search of ants, would attract attention to its wants by climbing up my knee, laying hold of my leg with its prehensile tail. The other, more... 