 | Sir Samuel White Baker - 1867 - 684 páginas
...on their return to the desert from the river. Those who have seen 56 3IY FIRST AND LAST. [CHAP. iii. donkeys in their civilized state have no conception...courage ; there is a high-bred tone in the deportment, a high-actioned step when it trots freely over the rocks and sand, with the speed of a horse when it... | |
 | Sir Samuel White Baker - 1868 - 508 páginas
...halted and faced about; they were evidently on their return to the desert from the river. Those who have seen donkeys in their civilized state have no conception...courage ; there is a high-bred tone in the deportment, a high-actioned step when it trots freely over the rocks and sand, with the speed of a horse when it... | |
 | Sir Samuel White Baker, William Leonard Gage - 1868 - 672 páginas
...on their return to the desert from the river. Those who have seen 78 MY FIRST AND LAST. [CHAP. HI. donkeys in their civilized state have no conception...courage ; there is a high-bred tone in the deportment, a high-actioned step when it trots freely over the rocks and sand, with the speed of a horse when it... | |
 | Sir Samuel White Baker - 1868 - 654 páginas
...halted and faced about; they were evidently on their return to the desert from the river. Those who have seen donkeys in their civilized state have no conception...of the beauty of the wild and original animal. Far CHAP, in.] MY FIRST AND LAST DONKEY. 55 from the passive and subdued appearance of the English ass,... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1902 - 968 páginas
...western Abyssinia as follows: "Those who have seen donkeys in their civilized state have no conception of the wild and original animal. Far from the passive...courage; there is a high-bred tone in the deportment, a high-actioned step when it trots freely over the rocks and sand with the speed of a horse. When it... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1902 - 984 páginas
...have seen donkeys in their civilized state have no conception of the wild and original animal. Kar from the passive and subdued appearance of the English...courage ; there is a high-bred tone in the deportment, a high-actioned step when it trots freely over the rocks and sand with the s pee- i of a hcrse. \Yhen... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 960 páginas
...western Abyssinia as follows: "Those who have seen donkeys in their civilized state have no conception of the wild and original animal. Far from the passive...courage; there is a high-bred tone in the deportment, a high-actioned step when it trots freely over the rocks and sand with the speed of a horse. When it... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - 1906 - 616 páginas
...and has excited much interest among sportsmen. Baker declared of the wild ass of the Nubian deserts: "The animal in its native desert is the perfection...courage; there is a high-bred tone in the deportment, a high-actioned step when it trots freely over the rocks and sand with the speed of a horse. When it... | |
 | Richard Lydekker - 1908 - 518 páginas
...the neighbourhood of the Atbara river : " Those who have seen donkeys in their civilised state can have no conception of the beauty of the wild and original animal. ... In its native desert it is the perfection of activity and courage ; there is a high-bred tone in... | |
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Those who have seen donkeys in their civilized state have no conception of the beauty of the wild and original animal. Far from the passive and subdued appearance of the English ass, the animal in its native desert is the perfection of activity and courage... 