 | 1832 - 410 str.
...hunters. If it be true, it is certainly a curious display of animal instinct. This hour is therefore always kept in view by the hunter, as he rides slowly...furious, and rushes upon his enemy, making desperate plunges with his sharp horns, and striking and trampling furiously with his fore-legs, which, being... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 str.
...hunters. If it be true, it is certainly a curious display of animal instinct. This hour is therefore always kept in view by the hunter, as he rides slowly...furious, and rushes upon his enemy, making desperate plunges with his sharp horns, and striking and trampling furiously with his fore-legs, which, being... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 str.
...keen eye penetrates the surrounding shades. On beholding a deer, the hunter slides from his hors?, and while the deer is observing the latter, creeps...object of pursuit until he gets near enough to fire. An export woodsman seldom fails to hit his game. Another mode is, to watch at night, in the neighbourhood... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1837 - 164 str.
...whether in the day or night ; such is the uniform testimony of experienced hunters. If it be true, it is certainly a curious display of animal instinct....fire. An expert woodsman seldom fails to hit his game. Another mode is, to watch at night, in the neighbourhood of the salt-licks. These are spots where the... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1842 - 556 str.
...the surrounding shades. On beholding a deer, the hunter slides from his horse, and while the deer ia observing the latter, creeps upon him, keeping the...finds himself deprived of the power of flight than be becomes furious, and rushes upon his enemy, making desperate lunges with his sharp horns, and striking... | |
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - 1846 - 302 str.
...On seeing a deer, he slides gently from his horse ; and, while the deer is observing the latter, he creeps upon him, keeping the largest trees between himself and the object of his pursuit, until he gets near enough to fire. Another mode is by watching at the " salt licks" at... | |
 | 1860 - 654 str.
...rifle. On seeing a Deer he slides gently from his horse, and, while the Deer is observing the latter, he creeps upon him, keeping the largest trees between himself and the object of his pursuit, until he gets near enough to fire." After all, we think the female Wapiti, who was born... | |
 | William Martin - 1864 - 366 str.
...slides from his horse, and while the deer is observing the latter, creeps upon him, keeping the longest trees between himself and the object of pursuit, until he gets near enough to fire. An expert woodsman never fails to hit his game. It is extremely dangerous to approach a wounded deer. Timid and harmless... | |
 | Sir Richard George Augustus Levinge - 1846 - 284 str.
...On seeing a deer, he slides gently from his horse ; and, while the deer is observing the latter, he creeps upon him, keeping the largest trees between himself and the object of his pursuit, until he gets near enough to fire. Another mode is by watching at the " salt licks" at... | |
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This hour is therefore always kept in view by the hunter, as he rides slowly through the forest, with his rifle on his shoulder, while his keen eye penetrates the surrounding shades. On beholding a deer, the hunter slides from his horse, and, while the... 