 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...in the dark. I called upon my servant with a light, and there was the Hyaena standing near the head of the bed, with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To have fired at him, I was in danger of breaking my quadrant or other furniture ; and he seemed, by... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 524 pages
...afraid of him ; but with a pike struck him as near the heart as I could judge. It was not till then that he showed any signs of fierceness ; but upon feeling his wound, he let drop the candles, and endeavoured to run up the shaft of the spear to arrive at me, so that I was... | |
 | American Colonization Society - African Americans - 1824 - 862 pages
...in the dark. I called upon my servant with a light, and there was the hyena standing nigh the head of the bed with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To have fired at him I was in danger of breaking my quadrant or other furniture, and he seemed, by... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 382 pages
...me in the dark. I called my servant to bring a light ; and we found an Hyaena standing near the head of the bed, with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To have fired at him, would have been at the risk of breaking my quadrant or other furniture; and he... | |
 | Zoology - 1829 - 494 pages
...at me in the dark. I called up my servant with a light, and we found a Hyaena standing near the head of the bed, with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To have fired at him, would have been at the risk of breaking my quadrant, or other furniture ; and... | |
 | Michael Russell - Ethiopia - 1833 - 364 pages
...in the dark. I called upon my servant with a light, and there was the hyena standing nigh the head of the bed, with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To have fired at him I was in danger of breaking my quadrant or other furniture, and he seemed, by... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, East - 1833 - 456 pages
...in the dark. I called upon my servant with a light, and there was the hyena standing nigh the head of the bed, with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To have fired at him I was in danger of breaking my quadrant or other furniture, and he seemed, by... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...dark. I called upon my servan with a light, and there was the hyaena stand ing near the head of my bed, with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To hare fired at hint I was in danger of breaking anliMiishinent even of inv medical fricmla, it liad... | |
 | African Americans - 1834 - 402 pages
...in the dark. I called upon my servant with a light, and there was the hyena standing nigh the head of the bed with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To have fired at him I was in danger of breaking my quadrant or other furniture, and he seemed, by... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animals - 1837 - 344 pages
...at me in the dark. I called up my servant with a light, and we found a Hyeena standing near the head of the bed, with two or three large bunches of candles in his mouth. To have fired at him would have been at the risk of breaking my quadrant, or other furniture ; and... | |
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I was in danger of breaking my quadrant or other furniture, and he seemed, by keeping the candles steadily in his mouth, to wish for no other prey at that time. 
