...EXPERIMENT IN INDIGO-PLANTING JAVANESE EXECUTION A PET BOA ALLIGATORS — FOREST LABOUR — SLAVERY IN JAVA OPIUM-SMOKING TEA THE UPAS-TREE. BETWEEN three...rather by surprise, and, instead of trying to leap over their heads, darted in under their spears, got among their feet, and effected his retreat, to...

...twice round the square, just at the point of the spears. Not a man advanced to touch him, it being a rule that the tiger must come within the range of...exciting ; his second much less so ; his third and last very feeble. Immediately after the tiger's death, the same ceremonies were gone through with a leopard,...

...the point of the spears. Not a man advanced to touch, it being the rule, that the tiger must come in the range of the spears, before they can be used....third attempt to escape, and thus ended the sport. [Davidson's Far East. The Begluulug of the War. The movement of the troops to the Del Norte was made...

...seconds, and laying himself quietly down, looked all round upon his foes, and gave a roar that made the the welkin ring, and my young heart quake a little....rather by surprise, and, instead of trying to leap over their heads, darted in under their spears, got among their feet, and effected his retreat, to...

...at a walk, then at a trot, which he gradually increased to a smart canter, till within a few yards of the spears pointed at him; he then came to the...rather by surprise, and instead of trying to leap over their heads, darted in under their spears, got among their feet, and effected his retreat, to...

...the spears of the six men nearest him being pointed at his breast, one of them inflicted a fearful wound. " On reaching the ground, the noble beast struggled...rather by surprise, and instead of trying to leap over their heads, darted in under their spears, got among their feet, and effected his escape, to the...