 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1838 - 454 Seiten
...abounding in fat, which in the colony, is deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upwards of an inch and a half in thickness, and...ribs in strips like the planks from a ship's side. Of these are manufactured a superior description of sjambok, the elastic whip already noticed as being... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 606 Seiten
...and abounding in fat, which in the colony is deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upwards of an inch and a half in thickness, and,...ribs in strips like the planks from a ship's side. Of these are manufactured a superior description of sjambok, the elastic whip already noticed as being... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1839 - 440 Seiten
...and abounding in fat, which in the colony is deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upwards of an inch and a half in thickness, and...ribs in strips like the planks from a ship's side. Of these are manufactured a superior description of sjambok, the elastic whip already noticed as being... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 Seiten
...and abounding in fat, which in the colony ^deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upwards of an inch and a half in thickness, and, being scarcely flexible, may be dratrged from the ribs in strips like the planks from"a ship's side. Of these are manufactured a superior... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 Seiten
...The hide is upwards of an incl and a half in thickness, and, being scarcely flexible, may be draggei from the ribs in strips like the planks from a ship's side. Of these are manufactured a superior description of sjambok, the elastic whip ahead noticed as being... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1844 - 438 Seiten
...and abounding in fat, which in the colony is deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upwards of an inch and a half in thickness, and being scarcely * Hippopotamui Amphibius. Delineated in the Portraits of Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa.... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1852 - 622 Seiten
...in fat, .which in the colony is deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upward of an inch and a half in thickness, and being scarcely flexible may be drawn from the ribs in strips, like the planks from a ship's side. Of these are manufactured a superior... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 432 Seiten
...and abounding in fat, which in the colony is deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upwards of an inch and a half in thickness, and...succeeded by the following combination of letters : " Heurh — hurh — heoh, heoh." The two first syllables are to be pronounced slowly, and the two... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 478 Seiten
...and abounding in fat, which in the colony is deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upwards of an inch and a half in thickness, and...dragged from the ribs in strips like the planks from a snip's side." Prom the construction of the head, the animal is enabled to raise its eyes and nostrils... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 Seiten
...in fat, which, in the colony, is deservedly esteemed the greatest of delicacies. The hide is upward of an inch and a half in thickness, and, being scarcely flexible, may be drawn from the ribs in strips, like the planks from a ship's side. Of these are manufactured a superior... | |
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... perfection of rifle practice, and after a few shots become exceedingly shy, exhibiting the snout only, and as instantly withdrawing it. The flesh is delicious, resembling pork in flavour, and abounding in fat, which in the colony is deservedly esteemed... 
