 | 1833 - 310 pages
...This sight pleased me so much that I wished it to be repeated ; and, to try their strength, directed a fullgrown negro to mount the smallest, and two others...disproportioned to their strength. At first they went at a tolerable sharp trot ; but when they became heated a little, they expanded their wings, as though to... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1833 - 394 pages
...This sight pleased me so much that I ordered it to be repeated ; and, to try their strength, directed a fullgrown negro to mount the smallest, and two others...disproportioned to their strength. At first they went at a tolerably sharp trot, but when they became heated a little, they expanded their wings as though to... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...to try their strength, directed a full-grown negro to mount the smallest, and two others the larger. This burden did not seem at all disproportioned to...went at a pretty sharp trot ; but when they became heated a little, they expanded their wings as though to catch the wind, and moved with such fleetness,... | |
 | 1834 - 532 pages
...me so well, that I w°ould have it repeated : and to try their strength, I made a full-grown negro mount the smallest, and two others the largest. This burden did not seem to me at all disproportioned to their strength. At first they went a moderate gallop ; when they were... | |
 | 1835 - 398 pages
...me so well, that 1 would have it repeated : and to try their strength, I made a full grown ne* gro mount the smallest, and two others the largest. This burden did not seem to be at all disproportioned to their strength. At first they went a moderate gallop ; when they were... | |
 | James Rennie - 1835 - 408 pages
...pleased me so well, that I would have it repeated : and to try their strength, I made a full-grown negro mount the smallest, and two others the largest. This burden did not seem to me at all disproportioned to their strength. At first they went a moderate gallop ; when they were... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1836 - 924 pages
...possession of two tame ostriches ; and to try their strength, says he, " I made a full-grown negro mount the smallest, and two others the largest. This...disproportioned to their strength. At first they went a pretty high trot ; and, when they were heated a little, they expanded their wings, as if it were... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 pages
...pleased me so much that I wished it to be repeated; and, to try their strength, directed a full grown negro to mount the smallest, and two others the largest....disproportioned to their strength. At first they went at a tolerable sharp trot ; but when they became heated a little, they expanded their wings, as though to... | |
 | 1844 - 384 pages
...This sight pleased me so much that I ordered it to be repeated ; and, to try their strength, directed a fullgrown negro to mount the smallest, and two others...disproportioned to their strength. At first they went at a tolerably sharp trot, but when they became heated a little, they expanded their wings as though to... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...pleased me so well that I would have it repeated, and, to try their strength, I made a full-grown negro mount the smallest and two others the largest. This burden did not seem to me at all disproportion«! to their strength. At first they went a moderate gallop ; when they were... | |
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I ordered it to be repeated ; and, to try their strength, directed a fullgrown negro to mount the smallest, and two others the largest. This burden did not seem at all disproportioned to their strength. At first they went at a... 
