Scandinavian Adventures: During a Residence of Upwards of Twenty Years; Representing Sporting Incidents, and Subjects of Natural History, and Devices for Entrapping Wild Animals. With Some Account of the Northern Fauna, Volume 1R. Bentley, 1854 - Animals |
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Page 210 - every man is now a fisherman, and many of the waters are hired, so that it is difficult to get a cast to yourself ; and I consider the game nearly up, at least for an old one like myself, and not worth going the distance. There are few flogging rivers, all dragging, which levels all, and skill avails nothing.
Page 391 - ... tiger, strikes with his paw, which they say is his usual habit when making his onset on horses and cattle.* If this be true, it is well ; as otherwise, from the very great muscular power of his arm, annihilation would probably quickly follow the blow. But, after all, no inference can fairly be drawn from my case, as the beast's forbearance towards me might have arisen simply from my remaining quite passive : had I, on the contrary, been on my...
Page 428 - ... back, wag her tail most lovingly, and look innocence personified. And this amiable demeanour would continue until the grunter was beguiled within the length of her tether, when, in the twinkling of an eye, "Richard was himself again.
Page 394 - My skull, for a considerable extent, was laid bare in two places : one wound, by the doctor's account on the following day, being eight, the other nine inches in length — though parts of both were, of course, superficial; but from my hair being cut very short, and the fangs of the beast thus readily passing through it, I escaped being scalped, as would inevitably have happened, had it been worn long after the fashion of the Swedish peasantry.
Page 86 - It is commonly supposed that, in conjunction with the male, the female salmon scrapes a hole, or furrow in the bed of the river, in which to deposit her eggs, and that afterwards, and as a protection from their numerous enemies, they cover them over with gravel; but such is not the fact, at least in the Save. The male has nothing to do with this part of the work; and the ova, instead of being dropped into a cavity, are deposited on a comparatively smooth surface. Whilst in the act of spawning, the...
Page 391 - My body also suffered greatly from his furious attacks, which extended from the neck and shoulder downwards to the hip. But he did not attempt in any manner to hug or embrace me, as we in England seem to imagine his custom to be when carrying on offensive operations ; nor did he seemingly molest me in any way with his claws. All my wounds were, to the best of my belief ', inflicted with his fangs.
Page 392 - I had the satisfaction to see him retreat, though at a very slow pace, into the adjoining thicket, when he was at once lost to view. Immediately after he left me I arose, and applied snow by the handful to my head to stanch the blood which was flowing from it in streams. I lost a very large quantity, and the bear not a little, so that the sno*' all around the scene of conflict was literally deluged with gore."—Pp.
Page 427 - Besides this he eat three bowls of food daily. It was remarkable that our dogs used to eat with him out of the same bowl ; but if any strange animal attempted to share the food with him he would go beside himself with rage. Whenever he saw me in the yard he kept up a dreadful noise, and when I went up to his kennel...
Page 355 - ... autumn, when the painted leaves hang frail; it is more beautiful still when the tall pines and gnarled oaks stand in the deep silence of a winter noon, their long arms and fantastic brunches heaped with the feathery burthen ' that has never caught one stain of earth.
Page 93 - ... admit of little more than the breadth of a finger, and consequently he cannot grasp the body of an antagonist. Indeed, were he enabled to do so, he would soon destroy himself. . . ..... In the breeding season the contests between the males are incessant and desperate. Mr. Keiller repeatedly noticed an immense salmon charge another with such thorough good-will as to throw him fairly out of the water. As it is, their battles are bloody enough ; not only are fish observed to be...