| William Ketchum - Buffalo (N. Y.) - 1865 - 468 pages
...obliged to leave the place till the following season, or till the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, &c., had devoured the carcases and abandoned the place...first droves that arrived, skinned them, and left their bodies exposed to the sun and air. But they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - Geology - 1877 - 1046 pages
...season, or till the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, ravens, etc., had devoured the carcasses, and abandoned the place for other prey. In the two...first droves that arrived, skinned them, and left their bodies exposed to the sun and air ; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining... | |
| Joel Asaph Allen - American bison - 1877 - 158 pages
...season, or till the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, ravens, etc., had devoured the carcasses, and abandoned the place for other prey. In the two...first droves that arrived, skinned them, and left their bodies exposed to the sun and air ; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - Geology - 1877 - 1032 pages
...season, or till the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, ravens, etc., had devoured the carcasses, aud abandoned the place for other prey. In the two following...first droves that arrived, skinned them, and left their bodies exposed to the sun and air ; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1877 - 1066 pages
...season, or till the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, ravens, etc., had devoured the carcasses, aud abandoned the place for other prey. In the two following...first droves that arrived, skinned them, and left their bodies exposed to the sun and air ; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining... | |
| Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) - Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1879 - 486 pages
...following season, or till the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, &c., had devoured the carcasses, and abandoned the place for other prey. In the two...first droves that arrived, skinned them, and left their bodies exposed to the sun and air. But they soon had reason to repent of this; for the remaining... | |
| United States National Museum - Science - 1889 - 884 pages
...season, or till the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, ravens, etc., had devoured the carcasses and abandoned the place for other prey. In the two...first droves that arrived, skinned them, and left their bodies exposed to the sun and air; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1889 - 870 pages
...season, or till the wolves, bears, panthers, eagles, rooks, ravens, etc., bad devoured the carcasses and abandoned the place for other prey. In the two...first droves that arrived, skinned them, and left their bodies exposed to the sun and air; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1902 - 410 pages
...each ; and after this work of death, they were obliged to leave the place till the following season. In the two following years, the same persons killed...great numbers out of the first droves that arrived ; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining droves, as they came up in succession,... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart, Annie Bliss Chapman - American literature - 1903 - 408 pages
...each ; and after this work of death, they were obliged to leave the place till the following season. In the two following years, the same persons killed...great numbers out of the first droves that arrived ; but they soon had reason to repent of this, for the remaining droves, as they came up in succession,... | |
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