 | William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sand-bank, and in an incredibly...the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly striking. At one moment pointing to the boat, at another shaking... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sandbank, and in an incredibly...the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly striking. At one moment pointing to the boat, at another shaking... | |
 | Ralph Temple (miscellaneous writer.) - 1865 - 486 pages
...soon as he got a-head of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water, struggled across the channel to the sand-bank, and, in an incredibly...of time, stood in front of the savage against whom his aim. had been directed. Seizing him by the throat, he pushed him backwards, and forcing all who... | |
 | John Wrathall Bull - Frontier and pioneer life - 1878 - 352 pages
...as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sandbank, and in an incredibly...him backwards, and forcing all who were in the water on to the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and agitation that were exceedingly striking. At... | |
 | John Wrathall Bull - Frontier and pioneer life - 1884 - 450 pages
...as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sandbank, and in an incredibly...him backwards, and forcing all who were in the water on to the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and agitation that were exceedingly striking. At... | |
 | John Wrathall Bull - Frontier and pioneer life - 1884 - 448 pages
...as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sandbank, and in an incredibly...him backwards, and forcing all who were in the water on to the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and agitation that were exceedingly striking. At... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - Australia - 1886 - 1090 pages
...height " into the bed of the river, struggled across the channel to " the sandspit, and stood in fro:it of the savage against " whom my aim had been directed....and, forcing all " who were in the water upon the spit, he trod its " margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were " exceedingly striking. He pointed... | |
 | Ernest Favenc - Australia - 1888 - 510 pages
...savage, against whom my aim had been directed. Seizing him by the 1830.] JUNCTION OF THE DARLING. 95 throat, he pushed him backwards, and forcing all who...the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly striking. At one moment pointing to the boat, at another shaking... | |
 | Albert Frederick Calvert - Australia - 1895 - 310 pages
...as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sandbank, and in an incredibly...the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that were exceedingly striking. At one time pointing to the boat, at another shaking his... | |
 | Ernest Favenc - Biography & Autobiography - 1908 - 326 pages
...as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sandbank, and in an incredibly...him backwards, and forcing all who were in the water on the bank, he trod its margin with a vehemence and an agitation that was exceedingly striking. At... | |
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I observed four men at the top of their speed. The foremost of them as soon as he got ahead of the boat, threw himself from a considerable height into the water. He struggled across the channel to the sand-bank, and in an incredibly short space of time... 
