From what road-reports come across me, I gather that typhoid fever is no infrequent visitor when the water becomes scarce, when sources are polluted, and the carcases of the rotting stock lie strewed over larger areas.
It now became necessary again to bring the ship to earth, in order to secure the skins of the lion and lioness; and, the ground being favourable, this was done quite close to the spot where the two carcases lay.
And when at length this was successfully achieved, there still remained the carcases of four lions, one leopard, and a python to be dealt with.
As the Flying Fish settled down quite close to the spot where the carcases of the four unicorns were lying, von Schalckenberg waved his hand and shouted to the little group on deck-- "Ach!
So they; then, turning from the road oblique, Among the carcases each laid him down.
Nine dogs the hero at his table fed, Of which beheading two, their carcases He added also.
Then Hector on the river's brink fast by The Grecian fleet, where space he found unstrew'd With carcases convened the Chiefs of Troy.
What say you, shall we flesh our maiden swords in the carcases of the turbaned infidels of Turkey?
To meet the occasion, Dovers prepared a special dinner, the principal item being roast mutton, from one of the six carcases landed with the stores.
His constant care then became a heap of mutton carcases which the dogs in passing or during the occasional escapades from their shelter were always eager to attack.
Many were added to the bleaching carcases which fill the crevices or lie in heaps on ancient rookeries among the rocky ridges.
We have pushed the tools down and, following the storeman, painfully squeezed into an Arcadia of starry mounds of snow and glistening plaques of ice, through which project a few boulders and several carcases of mutton.
The cellar was a refrigerating chamber for fresh meat and contained fifteen carcasesof mutton, besides piles of seal-meat and penguins.
Ordinarily their food is obtained from the water, but at Macquarie Island they live almost entirely upon the carcases left by the sealers, and are usually seen defending their rights against skuas and giant petrels.
Neither the mammoth, great cave-lion, nor wild boar appear to have been conveyed into the cave in an entire state; for two or three molar or incisive teeth are the only remains of their carcases which have been found.
Trout of a large size were feasting upon the Frenchmen's carcases in the water.
Unfortunately, the boats had followed the carcases of the elephants down the river, which were two miles distant before they could be secured; therefore we had no means of reaching the island.
Especially because for want of room they did all things in one and the same place, and the carcases of such as died of their wounds, or vicissitudes of weather, or the like, lay there in heaps.
The report states, that the carcases of horses killed one day, and amounting to thirty-five, would be found the next morning with the bones picked clean.
The carcases of the dead exhibit symptoms of immediate putrefaction, similar to what is observed to take place on bodies deprived of life by thunder, or the effect of electricity.
It was decided that I should gather up my dead, load the carcases upon Prince and convey them to where Andries had piled his.
I loaded up three carcases and deposited them on the heap formed by those of Andries.
Then I sat on the ground among the carcases and piled them around me; only my head emerged from the mass.
But as the hours passed the carcasesgrew cold and colder; my misery became acute.
I dismounted, and we piled the carcases on Prince's patient back.
It was nightfall when the wagon returned with its heavy load,--the carcases of two large oryx bulls.
When I reached the carcasesdepot there was little or no light.
Rotting carcases and bones met his touch--a noisome charnel-house gorged with human bodies in all the various stages of decay.
Mind thee, the beasts do not always get the carcases for dinner.
This expression can hardly be explained, except upon the view that fresh carcases were known to that people long before they were known to us of the Western world.
As to the carcases themselves, the Chinese said that the flesh was cold, but very healthy to eat.
Mammoths have been more than once found as entire carcases in the frozen soil of Siberia.
This Fox feeds on birds and cast-up carcases of Whales and Seals; it is also said to devour shell-fish, and actually to store up food when abundant for seasons of scarcity.
As I dragged the carcases to a distance, I felt thankful that the dogs had visited us, as, had they not come when they did, the snake might have found its way to the hut, and bitten Natty or me.
Having satisfied their curiosity for the present, they at length left me alone, and returned to the carcases of the elephants.
When the soft parts had been removed from the bodies of the horses, and replaced by chaff, the carcases were set upright by means of poles driven into the earth.
It appears that he had no such apparatus, and hence he found it necessary to send the carcases to Mitcham, the nearest place at which he believed the carcasescould be buried and disposed of, and the neighbourhood thereby disinfected.
It was impossible to bury the carcases in the London districts, and hence they were sent to the knacker's yard, where it was supposed they would be disposed of.
Within the district there were no means of burying the carcases of the diseased and condemned animals, and in the instance referred to they could not have been buried in the cowshed.
It seems that the authorities cannot find a place within a reasonable distance in which the carcases can be buried, and, therefore, they are obliged to have recourse to boiling them down, as the only alternative.
I have had an interview with Professor Simonds, and he informs me that there are the greatest difficulties, if not impossibilities, in finding any places near London in which the dead carcases of diseased animals can be buried.
He had a right to inquire upon what grounds the carcases had not been disposed of on the spot where they had been slaughtered, instead of being carted through the parish he represented, in a way calculated to spread the infection.
But as for you, your carcases shall fall in this wilderness.
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