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" The whole face of the landscape was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than three hundred within the scope of our vision. Every height and green knoll was dotted over with groups of them, whilst the bottom of the glen... "
Narrative of an Expedition Into Southern Africa: During the Years 1836, and ... - Page 192
by Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1838 - 406 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 202

1905 - 726 pages
...beggars all description. The whole face of the land was ' actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have ' been fewer than three hundred within...the glen exhibited a ' dense and sable living mass.' All this, be it remembered, was in the Transvaal and within the memory of men still living. Harris,...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1839 - 602 pages
...beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than three hundred within...concealed by the trees which they were disfiguring witli giant strength ; and at others seen majestically emerging into the open glades, bearing in their...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 64

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...panorama was before us. The whole face of the landicape-was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than three hundred within...moment partially concealed by the trees which they *ere disfiguring with giant strength, and at others seen majestically Emerging into the open glades,...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 36

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...panorama was before us. The whole face of the landscape wat actually covered with wild elephants. Tberc could not have been fewer than three hundred within...Every height and green knoll was dotted over with group* of them, whilst the bottom of the glen exhibited a dense and sable living mass, their colossal...
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Romance of Natural History: Or, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters

Charles Wilkins Webber - 1852 - 620 pages
...beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than three hundred within...concealed by the trees, which they were disfiguring with great strength ; and at others seen majestically emerging into the open glades, bearing in their trunks...
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The Wild Sports of Southern Africa: Being the Narrative of a Hunting ...

Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1852 - 492 pages
...beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than three hundred within...with groups of them, whilst the bottom of the glen exhited a dense and sable living mass — their colossal forms being at one moment partially concealed...
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Voyage and venture; or, Perils by sea and land

Voyage - 1853 - 440 pages
...beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than three hundred within...concealed by the trees, which they were disfiguring with great strength ; and at others seen majestically emerging into the open glades, bearing in their trunks...
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The Hunter-naturalist: Romance of Sporting; Or, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters

Charles Wilkins Webber - 1859 - 630 pages
...beggars all description. The whole face of the landscape was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than three hundred within...and green knoll was dotted over with groups of them, wliilst the bottom of the glen exhibited a dense and sable living mass — their colossal forms being...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 244

1926 - 434 pages
...of the landscape was actually covered with wild elephants. There could not have been fewer than 300 within the scope of our vision. Every height and green...and sable living mass — their colossal forms being seen emerging into the open glades, bearing branches in their trunks, with which they indolently defended...
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