 | 1905 - 726 oldal
...and magnificent panorama was before us, which ' beggars all description. The whole face of the land was ' actually covered with wild elephants. There...the glen exhibited a ' dense and sable living mass.' All this, be it remembered, was in the Transvaal and within the memory of men still living. Harris,... | |
 | 1839 - 602 oldal
...thinly-wooded ravine. Here a grand and magnificent panorama was before us, which beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered...concealed by the trees which they were disfiguring witli giant strength ; and at others seen majestically emerging into the open glades, bearing in their... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1838 - 454 oldal
...wooded ravine. Here a grand and magnificent panorama was before us, which beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered with wild Elephants. There 25 could not have been fewer than three hundred within the scope of our vision. Every height and green... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 oldal
...thinly-wooded ravine. Here a grand «nd magnificent panorama was before us. The whole face of the landicape-was actually covered with wild elephants. There could...moment partially concealed by the trees which they *ere disfiguring with giant strength, and at others seen majestically Emerging into the open glades,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 oldal
...panorama was before us. The whole face of the landscape wat actually covered with wild elephants. Tberc could not have been fewer than three hundred within...Every height and green knoll was dotted over with group* of them, whilst the bottom of the glen exhibited a dense and sable living mass, their colossal... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1852 - 620 oldal
...wooded ravine. Here a grand and magnificent panorama was before us, which beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered...concealed by the trees, which they were disfiguring with great strength ; and at others seen majestically emerging into the open glades, bearing in their trunks... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1852 - 492 oldal
...thinly-wooded ravine. Here a grand and magnificent panorama was before us, which beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered...with groups of them, whilst the bottom of the glen exhited a dense and sable living mass — their colossal forms being at one moment partially concealed... | |
 | Voyage - 1853 - 440 oldal
...thinly-wooded ravine. Here a grand and magnificent panorama was before us, which beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered...concealed by the trees, which they were disfiguring with great strength ; and at others seen majestically emerging into the open glades, bearing in their trunks... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1859 - 630 oldal
...wooded ravine. Here a grand and magnificent panorama was before us, which beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered...and green knoll was dotted over with groups of them, wliilst the bottom of the glen exhibited a dense and sable living mass — their colossal forms being... | |
 | 1926 - 434 oldal
...are worth transcribing. After killing his first elephant he and his party came upon a valley where " the whole face of the landscape was actually covered...wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than 300 within the scope of our vision. Every height and green knoll was dotted over with groups of them,... | |
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The whole face of the landscape was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than three hundred within the scope of our vision. Every height and green knoll was dotted over with groups of them, whilst the bottom of the glen... 
