 | 1828 - 334 halaman
...his visit to the stables of the white elephants, who are the favorite animals of the Siamese deity. resistance. We could not reflect without horror, that...always, I am told, sufficient to destroy life.' * The greatest of the curiosities,' he says, ' to which our attention was directed, were the white elephants,... | |
 | 1828 - 732 halaman
...could not reflect, without horror, that these very individual animals were the same that have for forty years executed the sentence of the law upon the many...to death. Upon these occasions, a single toss, such asl have described, is always, I am told, sufficient to destroy life. • . " After the tiger fight,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 564 halaman
...tossed the tiger to a distance of at least thirty feet, after he was nearly lifeless, and could offer no resistance. We could not reflect, without horror,...very individual animals were the same that have for forty years executed the sentence of the law upon the many malefactors condemned to death. Upon these... | |
 | John Crawfurd - 1830 - 546 halaman
...tiger to a distance of at least thirty feet, after he was nearly lifeless, vol.. i. 7. and could offer no resistance. We could not reflect without horror,...is always, I am told, sufficient to destroy life. After the tiger-fight we had a mock battle, the intention of which was to represent elephants charging... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 halaman
...tossed the tiger to a distance of at least thirty feet, after he was nearly lifeless, and could offer no resistance. We could not reflect without horror,...is always, I am told, sufficient to destroy life. After the tiger-fight, we had a mock battle, the intention of which was to represent elephants charging... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 432 halaman
...least thirty feet, after he was nearly lifeless, and could offer no resistance. We could not ruiloct without horror, that these very individual animals...that have for years executed the sentence of the law upoa the many malefactors condemned to death. Upon these occasions a single toss, such as I have described,... | |
 | 1833 - 814 halaman
...resistance. We could not reflect without horror, that these were the same Elephants which have, for many years, executed the sentence of the law upon the many malefactors condemned to die. Upon these occasions, a single toss, such as I have described, is sufficient to occasion death.... | |
 | 1833 - 270 halaman
...have, for many years, executed the sentence of the law upon the many malefactors condemned to die. Upon these occasions, a single toss, such as I have described, is sufficient to occasion death. After the Tiger-fight we had a mock battle, the intention of which was... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855 - 492 halaman
...tossed the tiger to a distance of at least thirty feet, after he was nearly lifeless, and could offer no resistance. We could not reflect, without horror,...malefactors condemned to death. Upon these occasions one toss, such as I have described, is always, I am told, sufficient to destroy life." It is impossible... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1881 - 524 halaman
...tossed the tiger to n distance of at least thirty feet, after he was nearly lifeless, nnd could offer no resistance. We could not reflect without horror...same that have for years executed the sentence of the la\v upon the many malefactors condemned to death. Upon these occasions, a single toss, such as I have... | |
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I could have supposed. Some of them tossed the tiger to a distance of at least thirty feet, after he was nearly lifeless, and could offer no resistance. We could not reflect without horror, that these very individual animals were the same that have for... 
