 | Thomas Rupert Jones - Geology - 1875 - 908 pages
...as many as 1,600 were killed (or rather slaughtered) at one onset by the hunters who pursued tliem.t It has been killed several times on the British coast...had been seen in the Nor" Isles about the same time. One was killed on East Heiskar, Hebrides, by Capt McDonald, RN, iu April 1841 ; and another in the... | |
 | Thomas Rupert Jones - Geology - 1875 - 920 pages
...as 1,600 were killed (or rather slaughtered) at one onset by the hunters who pursued tliem.f It ha» been killed several times on the British coast ; and...had been seen in the Nor* Isles about the same time. One was killed on East Heiskar, Hebrides, by Capt McDonald, RN, in April 1841 ; and another in the... | |
 | Thomas Rupert Jones - Geology - 1875 - 906 pages
...the hunters who pursued them.f It has been killed several times on the British coast ; and I snspect that it is not an unfrequent visitor to our less-frequented...the Shetland fishermen told me had been seen in the Nor1 Isles about the same time. One was killed on East Heiskar, Hebrides, by Capt McDonald, RN, in... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - Geology - 1880 - 814 pages
...visitor" to the less frequented portions of the Scottish shores, he considering it probable that " not a few of the 'Sea-horses' and 'Sea-cows' which...embalmed among their folk-lore, may be the Walrus." || Fleming states that one was killed in the Sound of Stockness, on the east coast of Harris, in December,... | |
 | Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - Geology - 1880 - 814 pages
...visitor" to the less frequented portions of the Scottish shores, he considering it probable that " not a few of the ' Sea-horses ' and ' Sea-cows ' which...embalmed among their folk-lore, may be the Walrus." || Fleming states that one was killed in the Sound of Stockness, on the east coast of Harris, in December,... | |
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It has been killed several times on the British coast ; and I suspect that it is not an unfrequent visitor to our less-frequented shores. Perhaps not a few of the "Sea-horses" and 'Sea-cows" which every now and again terrify the fishermen on the shores... 