The Menageries: Quadrupeds, Described and Drawn from Living Subjects, 第 1 巻Charles Knight, 1829 |
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189 ページ - The other three (for one of my baggage elephants had come out too, the mohout, though unarmed, not caring to miss the show) went on slowly but boldly, with their trunks raised, their ears expanded, and their sagacious little eyes bent intently forward. " We are close upon him," said Mr. Boulderson, " fire where you see the long grass shake, if he rises before you.
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