Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 6. kötetF. & W. Dodsworth, 1864 |
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121. oldal - ... position they never hurt him: he therefore laid quietly taking his rest till the hunters approached, when he made off without being followed by the hounds, till they were again excited to the pursuit, which always terminated unsuccessfully. It is worthy of notice that he was one day pursued from Howick to upwards of thirty miles distance, but returned thither and killed sheep the same evening.
152. oldal - ... its pursuers. It happened, during the rigour of a severe winter, that, being pursued, it crossed the river upon the ice with some difficulty; and, being much strained by its violent exertions, was taken alive. It was kept for some weeks in the house, and was then again turned out ; but all its cunning and activity were gone : it seemed to have forgotten the places of its former retreat ; and, after running some time, it lay down in the midst of a brook, where it was killed by the dogs.
263. oldal - Within the memory of some whom this generation has seen, the sportsman who wandered in pursuit of game to the sources of the Tyne found the heaths round Keeldar Castle peopled by a race scarcely less savage than the Indians of California...
263. oldal - The Duke tells me his people in Keeldar were all quite wild the first time his father went up to shoot there. The women had no other dress than a bed-gown and petticoat. The men were savage and could hardly be brought to rise from the heath, either from sullenness or fear. They sung a wild tune, the burden of which was Ourina, ourina, ourina. The females sung, the men danced round, and at a certain part of the tune they drew their dirks, which they always wore.
263. oldal - He tells me his people in Keeldar were all quite wild the first time his father went up to shoot there. The women had no other dress than a bed-gown and petticoat. The men were savage, and could hardly be brought to rise from the heath, either from sullenness or fear. They sung a wild tune, the burden of which was orsina, orsina, orsina. The females sang, the men danced round, and at a certain point of the tune they drew their dirks, which they always wore.
121. oldal - ... about the kidneys, left it. Several of them, thus lacerated, were found alive by the shepherds ; and being taken proper care of, some of them recovered, and afterwards had lambs. From his delicacy in this respect, the destruction he...
121. oldal - December, 1784, by a smuggling vessel, near Boomer, on the coast of Northumberland: — " Finding himself deserted he began to worry sheep, and did so much damage that he became the terror of the country within a circuit of twenty miles.
74. oldal - ... it is then drawn together so as gradually to contract the limits of the fish, and raise them from the bottom. When disturbed, they become exceedingly agitated ; and so great is the force derived from their numbers and fear, that the utmost caution is used lest the net should either sink or be burst.
144. oldal - About 250 years ago, there was found in Scotland a wild race of cattle, which were of a pure white colour, and had, if we may belitve Boethius, manes like lions.