 | Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1840 - 568 pages
...great distance. They were descending the hills from the NW, and crossing the plain on their way to the the forests, where they spend the winter. Both bodies...however, appeared only intent on digging out a mouse's nest every now and then, so much so that he took no notice of us. We had great difficulty in restraining... | |
 | English essays - 1842 - 748 pages
...behind him a long line of thin vapour, further than the eye could reach, and formed a compact matt, narrowing towards the front. They moved slowly and...however, appeared only intent on digging out a mouse's nest, every now and then, so much so, that he took no notice of us. We had great difficulty in restraining... | |
 | Great Britain - 1842 - 740 pages
...moving wood of leafless trees. Each body was led by a deer of unusual size, which my guides asuured me was always a female. One of the herds was stealthily...however, appeared only intent on digging out a mouse's nest, every now and then, so much so, that he took no notice of us. We had great difficulty in restraining... | |
 | Ferdinand Petrovich Vrangel' - 1844 - 560 pages
...interesting, and to me, a perfectly novel spectacle. Two large migrating bodies of rein-deer passed us at no great distance. They were descending the hills...however, appeared only intent on digging out a mouse's nest every now and then, so much so that he took no notice of us. We had great difficulty in restraining... | |
 | James Edmund Harting - Cattle - 1880 - 340 pages
...bodies of Reindeer passed us at no great distance. They were descending the hills from the north-west, and crossing the plain on their way to the forests,...however, appeared only intent on digging out a mouse's nest every now and then — • so much so that he took no notice of us." On the warrantable assumption... | |
 | William Boyd Dawkins - Europe - 1880 - 574 pages
...plain on their way to the forests, where they spend the winter. Both bodies of deer extended farther than the eye could reach, and formed a compact mass...however, appeared only intent on digging out a mouse's nest every now and then — so much so that he took no notice of us." 1 Times, 31st October 1874. For... | |
 | William John Gordon - Arctic regions - 1907 - 464 pages
...bodies of reindeer passed us at no great distance. They were descending the hills from the north-west and crossing the plain on their way to the forests,...however, appeared only intent on digging out a mouse's nest every now and then, so much so that he took no notice of us. We had great difficulty in restraining... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1842 - 882 pages
...the Polar Sea. [Nov. further than the eye could reach, and formed a cotnfiact man, narrowing toward« the front. They moved slowly and majestically along,...however, appeared only intent on digging out a mouse's nest, every now and then, so much so, that he took no notice of us. We had great difficulty in restraining... | |
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Both bodies of deer extended further than the eye could reach, and formed a compact mass, narrowing towards the front. They moved slowly and majestically along, their broad antlers resembling a moving wood of leafless trees. Each body was led by a deer... 