 ... when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely stung. But they knew so well how to manage an affair of this kind, that they robbed the poor insects with the greatest ease and safety. Before...  Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa - Page 81by William John Burchell - 1824Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 812 pages
...path could be found to guide us or render our travelling easier, the Hottentots sometimes, by choosieg a smoother road, were scattered at a considerable...entering a hole in the ground, which had formerly be. longed to some animal of the weasel kind. As he made signs for us to come to him, we turned that... | |
 | Rev. William Dunbar, James Duncan - Bees - 1840 - 436 pages
...useless destruction of the larvee or young bees still in the cells." — " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground, which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident ; and when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely... | |
 | James Duncan - Bee culture - 1840 - 428 pages
...useless destruction of the larvae or young bees still in the cells." — " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground, which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident ; and when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely... | |
 | William Jardine - Entomology - 1840 - 430 pages
...useless destruction of the larvae or young bees still in the cells." — " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground, which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident ; and when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely... | |
 | William Jardine - Bees - 1859 - 424 pages
...useless destruction of the larvae or young bees still in the cells." — " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground, which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident ; and when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without bejng severely... | |
 | James F. Robinson - Bee culture - 1880 - 268 pages
...useless destruction of the larvae or young bees still in the cells." " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground which...that way fearing he had met with some accident ; and, when the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that we should escape without being severely... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 848 pages
...the Interior of Africa " thus describes an operation of this kind : " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident." It was the home of a recent swarm. " When the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that... | |
 | 1886 - 840 pages
...the Interior of Africa " thus describes an operation of this kind : " One of the Hottentots observed a number of bees entering a hole in the ground which...that way, fearing he had met with some accident." It was the home of a recent swarm. " When the people began to unearth the bees, I did not expect that... | |
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