Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 311
mi,’’ gives an account of the courage and sagacity of one of these animals which accompanied him in his travels through South-western Africa. He had wounded a rhinoceros, which ran a few hundred yards, and then came to a stand. ‘* At break of day my men went on his trail. He had still strength… … by the lower lip, where she stuck with such tenacity that the rhinoceros, with all his fury, was unable to shake her off. She only relinquished her hold when her huge antagonist was fairly laid prostrate by a ball. ‘‘But the sagacity of this favorite Dog was as great as her courage. Being now in a…
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