The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 53National Geographic Society, 1928 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 224
... tigers and elephants - these last by an artist who had evidently never seen either animal or chromos of French presidents and Eu- ropean royalties . A gray - haired , wild - looking man in rags , hung round with the skins of small ...
... tigers and elephants - these last by an artist who had evidently never seen either animal or chromos of French presidents and Eu- ropean royalties . A gray - haired , wild - looking man in rags , hung round with the skins of small ...
Page 232
... The White City of Algiers lies between blue sea and green hill , like a pearl set among sapphires and emeralds in the Crown of France . Campaigning Against Tigers , Elephants , and Other Wild Animals. 232 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE.
... The White City of Algiers lies between blue sea and green hill , like a pearl set among sapphires and emeralds in the Crown of France . Campaigning Against Tigers , Elephants , and Other Wild Animals. 232 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE.
Page 233
... tiger . The tiger at times almost dominates the thoughts and lives of the people . This beast is the power , the dread , the blood - lusty personi- fication of the cruelty of the mighty jun- gle itself , of this jungle which surrounds ...
... tiger . The tiger at times almost dominates the thoughts and lives of the people . This beast is the power , the dread , the blood - lusty personi- fication of the cruelty of the mighty jun- gle itself , of this jungle which surrounds ...
Page 234
... tiger is naturally a man - killer . The normal tiger has an instinctive fear of man . This normal tiger is a game - killer . Deer , wild pig , and the like are his natural prey and food . But where man invades the jungle in numbers ...
... tiger is naturally a man - killer . The normal tiger has an instinctive fear of man . This normal tiger is a game - killer . Deer , wild pig , and the like are his natural prey and food . But where man invades the jungle in numbers ...
Page 236
... tigers themselves , but quite as much by the super- stitions and fears of the natives . Their dread of the tiger is easily under- stood . It was one thing for me to go trek- king through the bush , armed with a mod- ern rifle , followed ...
... tigers themselves , but quite as much by the super- stitions and fears of the natives . Their dread of the tiger is easily under- stood . It was one thing for me to go trek- king through the bush , armed with a mod- ern rifle , followed ...
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