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There were two white animals of the hog kind, a male and a female lama, three goats, besides several birds, about the size of a turkey, some tortoises, and other amphibious animals.
We found thousands of their eggs, some on the surface and some buried in the sand, and if one in a dozen of them brings forth a turtle, there will be no lack of the animal in the neighborhood.
She had a way of speaking of the animals with a smile, as a nice occupation to keep the children quiet.
The Kernal, a gray-headed old war-worn vetenary, alited from his hoss, and tide the animal to the bed-post.
The hunting did not appeal to me particularly, because it seemed to me useless to kill so large an animal for so small a spoil.
When I arose from my knees, I made out an animal on the hill crest looking at me, but before I could distinguish its characteristics it had disappeared.
But although Cuvier's leading diagnosis of the animal from the plant will not stand a strict test, it remains one of the most constant of the distinctive characters of animals.
The Arctic and Atlantic seas, he says, are as full of fishes and other animals as those of the tropics.
Raising old "Lucretia Borgia" to my shoulder, I fired, and killed the animal at the first shot.
Thou mightest as well seek to illustrate the habits of animals by establishing a menagerie in which panthers should eat grass, and antelopes be dieted on rabbits.
"I am a stronger animal than you.
We pushed our boat back towards the open water, when we heard the plunge of some animal into the lake, on the other side of the island.
This was not the effect of mere novelty, for animals like the ambâ and birds like the esve, trained to the performance of services congenial to their natural habits, however dissimilar to Terrestrial species, had not the same air of singularity, or rather of monstrosity.
But if we watch more closely still, we should find that the plants could not live without the animals, nor the animals without the plants, nor either of them without the soil beneath our feet, and the air and rain above our heads.
Besides skill in driving, he should possess a good general knowledge of horses; he has usually to purchase provender, to see that the horses are regularly fed and properly groomed, watch over their condition, apply simple remedies to trifling ailments in the animals under his charge, and report where he observes symptoms of more serious ones which he does not understand.
" But, leaving wheels and animals out of the question, the free mountaineer with a sack of bread on his shoulders and an ax to cut steps in ice and frozen snow can make his way across the range almost everywhere, and at any time of year when the weather is calm.
I mean the infant science of Bio-geologythe science which treats of the distribution of plants and animals over the globe, and the cause of that distribution.
You would thereby avoid confounding the noble animals before you with the no less useful, but undeniably less attractivein an aesthetic point of viewanimals which belong to the bovine race.
After all had taken their seats, he said he would like to know what the members had been doing for animals during the past fortnight.
Our wild animals around here are getting pretty well killed off, but there are lots in other places.
His only chance of capturing a wild courser lay in his skill in casting the spear, which might enable him to pierce the animal through the upper part of the neck, and thus produce a temporary insensibility, during which time he might be secured without any permanent injury.
This sense warns the animal against swallowing deleterious substances.
There was no kind of animals among them excepting parrots, which they carried to barter with the Christians among the articles already mentioned, and in this trade they continued on board the ships till night, when they all returned to the shore.
We had headed the animal towards the island, with our three boats so arranged, as that he could swim in no other direction, without running one of them down.
His huge legs were crooked like those of a great ape; and, indeed, there was something animal about his whole appearance, something for he was bearded up to his eyes, and it was a paw rather than a hand which still clutched me by the collar.