 | James Greenwood - Adventure and adventurers - 1862 - 492 pages
...time to avail .fdrmy observations, I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving orders for the men with my surveying instruments to follow my track...the camp, when I was startled by a slight rustling to my right, and in another instant by the spring of a magnificent leopard, which, in a bound of full... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...to gain a height in time to avail myself of the clear atmosphere of sun- rise for my observations, I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving...leaving the plain, I availed myself of a fine wide game-track, which lay in my direction, and had gone perhaps half a mile from the camp, when I was startled... | |
 | James Greenwood - Game and game-birds - 1870 - 496 pages
...of sunrise for my observations, I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving orders for the men with my surveying instruments to follow my track...leaving the plain, I availed myself of a fine wide game tragk which lay in my direction, and had gone perhaps half a mile from the camp when I was startled... | |
 | Harland Coultas - Animal welfare - 1874 - 196 pages
...anxious to gain a height in time to avail myself of the clear atmosphere of sun-rise for my observations, I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving...the notches which I cut in the bark of the trees. Availing myself of a fine game track which pointed in the direction which I wished to pursue, I left... | |
 | Thomas Murby (publisher.) - 1879 - 264 pages
...of sunrise for my observations, I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving orders for the men with my 'surveying instruments to follow my track...track which lay in my direction, and had gone perhaps half-a-mile from the camp, when I was startled by a slight rustling to my right, and in another instant... | |
 | James Greenwood (journalist.) - 1880 - 508 pages
...of sunrise for my observations, I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving orders for the men with my surveying instruments to follow my track by the notches which I cut in the bnrk of the trees. On leaving the plain, I availed myself of a fine wide game track which lay in my... | |
 | Stewart W. and co - 1884 - 186 pages
...anxious to gain a height in time to avail myself of the clear atmosphere of sunrise for my observations, I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving...with my surveying instruments to follow my track by notches I cut in the bark of the trees. I had gone perhaps half a mile from the camp, when I was startled... | |
 | John Ferguson - Agriculture - 1893 - 536 pages
...for my observations, I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving orders for the men, with the surveying instruments, to follow my track by the notches...cut in the bark of the trees. On leaving the plain I struck into a fine wide game track, which lay in my direction, and had gone perhaps half a mile from... | |
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I started off by myself through the jungle, leaving orders for my men, with my surveying instruments, to follow my track by the notches which I cut in the bark of the trees. On leaving the plain, I availed myself of a fine wide game track which lay in... 