Singhalese have a superstition in relation to the close of life in the elephant : they believe that, on feeling the approach of dissolution, he repairs to a solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr Cripps when hunting... The Indian Forester - Page 5331884Full view - About this book
| tennent - 1859 - 694 lehte
...Koivoo TsAovf a|tx.uvav 6 The Singhalese have a further superstition in relation to the closing life of the elephant : they believe that, on feeling the approach...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr. Cripps, when hunting in the forests of Anarajapoora, intimated that he... | |
| sir James Emerson Tennent (bart.) - 1859 - 704 lehte
...TsAsyrSjt,- o Koive/u TE' The Singhalese "have a further superstition in relation to the closing life of the elephant : they believe that, on feeling the approach...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr. Cripps, when hunting in the forests of Anarajapoora, intimated that he... | |
| Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1859 - 700 lehte
...Singhalese have a further superstition in to the closing life of the elephant : they believe that, cm feeling the approach of dissolution, he repairs to...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr. Cripps, when hunting in the forests of Anarajapoora, intimated that he... | |
| Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1861 - 586 lehte
..." "O-rav 8' sTTKn-fj rtjs T£\£vrf)to KotvoO T/Xous d/j,vvav 6 %evos The Singhalese have a further superstition in relation to the close of life in the...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr. Cripps, when hunting, in the forests of Anarajapoora, intimated to him... | |
| James Greenwood - 1862 - 492 lehte
...last-mentioned authority states that the Singhalese have a superstition relating to the dot ng life of the elephant; they believe that on feeling the approach...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. 'While hunting in the forests of Anarajapoora, the oH'i'vod, when thcy came to . (hi immediate vicinity... | |
| Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1867 - 246 lehte
...the paths to which a Expositio de Eleph. L 243. Valley of Death. 1 8 1 The Singhalese have a further superstition in relation to the close of life in the...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr. Cripps, when hunting, in the forests of Anarajapoora, intimated to him... | |
| William Skeen - 1870 - 438 lehte
...demon-hannted double summit. Circling round between both lie a multitude of *"The Singhalese have a further superstition in relation to the close of life in the...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr. Cripps, when hunting, in the forests of Anarajapoora, intimated to him... | |
| George P. Sanderson - 1907 - 512 lehte
...elephants in all possible situations, he had never yet found a single skeleton of a dead one, except of those which had fallen by the rifle. " The Singhalese...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr Cripps when hunting in the forests of Anarajapoora, intimated to him that... | |
| George P. Sanderson - 1912 - 464 lehte
...elephants in all possible situations, he had never yet found a single skeleton of a dead one, except of those which had fallen by the rifle. " The Singhalese...solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. A native who accompanied Mr Cripps when hunting in the forests of Anarajapoora, intimated to him that... | |
| 1896 - 588 lehte
...Elephant " in Ceylon, says that the Singhalese believe that when an elephant feels dissolution approaching he repairs to a solitary valley, and there resigns himself to death. But this valley is so mysteriously concealed that, though many, both Europeans and natives, have believed... | |
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