Two Years in the JungleC. Scribner?s sons, 1885 - 512 pages |
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Ah Kee animal Animallai argus pheasants arms axis deer bamboo bank birds bison boat body Borneo camp Ceylon Chinese climbed Colombo color coolies crocodile dead deer eight elephant Etawah feet female fired fish flesh foot forest four gavials Government green ground half head herd Hill Dyaks Hindoo huge hundred hunting Ida'ans inches India Jaffna Jeddah Jumna jungle killed Kyans legs length looked Madras Malays mias miles monkeys morning mountain Mulcers Mullaitivu muntjac native nearly Neilgherry never night once Ootacamund orang orang-utan proboscis monkeys Rajah ravines reached rice rifle river rupees Sadong sambur sampan Sarawak Sea Dyaks Selangore shooting shot shoulders Sibuyau side Simujan skeleton skin skull soon species specimens Syers tail thick tiger took tree tribe tusker village walked wanderoo wild women yards
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Page 116 - So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
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Page 269 - Olly shot him all over with a walkingstick from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail.
Page 403 - ... tree, a sapling in fact, and builds his nest in its top, even though his weight causes it to sway alarmingly. He always builds his nest low down, often within twenty-five feet of the ground, and seldom higher than forty feet. Sometimes it is fully three feet in diameter, but usually not more than two, and quite flat on the top. There is no weaving together of branches, for they are merely piled crosswise as a natural consequence of their being broken off on different sides of the nest. In short,...
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Page 393 - CONCAVELY. (After Lieut. FS Marryat.) DYAK TEETH FILED TO A POINT. (After Lieut. FS Marryat.) plates on some of their front teeth, which looked like gold. I found that each upper incisor and canine tooth was capped by a smooth plate of copper, held in place by a pin driven into a hole in the tooth. The Dyaks showed me how the hole is drilled (with a bow), and one imitated the agony they endure during the operation. He was a good actor, and his facial and bodily contortions and writhings excited roars...