 | L. E. Ruutz Rees - India - 1858 - 412 pages
...to the right bank of the river Goomtee, running north of our entrenchment, accompanied by Lieutenant Hardinge of the Irregular Cavalry. "Here we undressed...crouching up a ditch for three hundred yards to a grove of low trees on the edge of a pond, where we stopped to dress. While we were here a man came down to the... | |
 | Charles Ball - India - 1858 - 750 pages
...cavalry. " Here we undressed and quietly forded the river, which was only about four feet and a-half deep, and about a hundred yards wide at this point....up a ditch for three hundred yards, to a grove of low trees on the edge of a pond, where we stopped to dress. While we were here, a man came down to... | |
 | India - 1858 - 486 pages
...undressed and quietly forded the river, which WM only about four and a half feet deep, and about 100 yards wide at this point. My courage failed me while...and reaching the opposite bank went crouching up a hill for 300 yards, to a grove of low trees on the edge of a pond, where we stopped to dress. While... | |
 | Sambhu Chandra Mookerjee - India - 1859 - 220 pages
...the Irregular Cavalry. Here we undressed and quietly forded the river, which was only about 4| feet deep and about a hundred yards wide at this point....crouching up a ditch for three hundred yards to a grove of low trees on the edge of a pond where we stopped to dresa. While we were here a man came down to the... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 664 pages
...cavalry. ' .Here we undressed and quietly forded the river, which was only about four and a half feet deep, and about a hundred yards wide at this point....have pulled him back and abandoned the enterprise ; bat he waded quickly through the stream. Reaching the opposite bank, we went crouching up a ditch... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 668 pages
...cavalry. ' Here we undressed and quietly forded the river, which was only about four and a half feet deep, and about a hundred yards wide at this point....been within reach, I should perhaps have pulled him l)ack and abandoned the enterprise ; but he waded quickly through the stream. Reaching the opposite... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1901 - 880 pages
...detected, he would certainly perish by torture. ' If my guide had been within my reach,' he says, ' I should perhaps have pulled him back and abandoned the enterprise.' But the guide was already vanishing, a sort of crouching shadow, into the blackness of the further bank... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 488 pages
...Here we undressed and quietly forded the river, which was only about four feet and a half deep and a hundred yards wide at this point. My courage failed...crouching up a ditch for three hundred yards to a grove of low trees on the edge of a pond, where we stopped to dress. While we were here a man came down to the... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge - Courage - 1902 - 688 pages
...within reach, he would probably have pulled him luck and abandoned the enterpri.te. But the spy wad«! quickly through the stream, and. reaching the opposite bank, went crouching up a diti-h for three hundred yards to a grove of low trees on the edp'of a pond. Hither his companion followed,... | |
 | Philip Aveling Wilkins - Commonwealth countries - 1904 - 476 pages
...Cavalry. Here we undressed, and quietly forded the river, which was only about four and a half feet deep, and about a hundred yards wide at this point....crouching up a ditch for three hundred yards to a grove of low trees on the edge of a pond, where we stopped to dress. While we were here a man came down to the... | |
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Here we undressed and quietly forded the river, which was only about four feet and a half deep and about a hundred yards wide at this point. My courage failed me while in the water, and if my guide had been within reach, I should perhaps have pulled him... 
