The beliefs and customs of one particular tribe of this great island--the Livuans, who occupy the eastern coast of the Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain--have been described by a Catholic missionary in similar terms.
Thus the natives of the Gazelle Peninsula in New Britain account for the origin of death by a tale very like that told in Annam.
This picture and those which follow it represent a census in the principality of the Gazelle under the XIIth dynasty as well as the collection of a tax.
The tombs of the princes of the nome of the Gazelle are disposed along the right bank of the Nile, and the most ancient are exactly opposite Minieh.
Under the cornice, hunters and dogs drive the gazelle across the undulating plains of the desert.
The beast is a gazelle about as big as a black-tailed deer.
Scarcely had its parched lips reached the stream when a black snout darted from the water, and the next instant the gazelle was struggling in the crocodile's jaws.
The gazelle paused a moment, looked round to satisfy itself that no enemy was near, and then put its lips to the water.
The gazelle left him again to go to graze, but always returned to the little one when she was satisfied.
But the arrival of the hunter compelled the gazelle to take to flight, and the child began to cry, because he was not yet satisfied.
Starting as the dense phalanx advanced, the timid gazelle scoured in terror over the valley, and the prowling lion yielded the path to men who were now in a mood not less desperate than his own.
Isaiah, when speaking of the beauty of Babylon, could bestow no higher praise than to say: “She is as the gazelle of kingdoms.
Solomon says: “My beloved is as beautiful as a gazelle leaping up the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
For instance, the fawn of the gazelle nourished by its mother does not prove that it was bred in captivity; the gazelle may have been caught before calving, or just after the birth of its young.
Having taken these precautions, they placed the body in the grave, sometimes entirely naked, sometimes partially covered with its ordinary garments, or sewn up in a closely fitting gazelle skin.
That done he unbound his eyes and saw a little gazelle lying dead with its throat cut, by the side of his young sister the princess Djouher-Manikam.
The princess Djouher-Manikam, having awakened after the departure of Minbah-Chahaz, saw that her brother was no longer there, but that at her side there was a little gazelle with its throat cut.
And the littlegazelle was killed by Minbah-Chahaz.
His dog, chasing some game, was struck by the foot of a little white gazelle and fell into the water.
Defn: A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air.
Defn: A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings.
Surely a young and active gazelle like you ought to be ashamed of not being able to walk a few steps.
In vain did the gazelle represent to him that she was enjoying herself very much, and that this was the easiest mode of conveyance she had ever discovered.
So he bade the prison-keeper bring her and set her in his presence and he returned with her right soon, but now she paced daintily as the gazelle and veiled her face, because she saw that the jailer had discovered her sex.
They were black, as I have already said, which is not the usual complexion of the natives of Habesh; and they were all clothed in tunics of wash leather made, they told me, of gazelle skins.
We were to stand our ground with firmness and shoot any gazelle that attacked us.
I think the gazellewe killed was identical with the antelope of our western plains.
Finishing the lunch we took a new hunting spot and managed to kill a gazelle and a large hare.
No gazelle could have looked upon those kegs and boxes without trembling in his boots.
During this absence from duty a large gazelle passed within ten steps of my station.
During my stay at Blagoveshchensk the governor invited me to assist at a gazelle hunt.
A tiny gazelle which was probably buried with her, like the pet gazelle discovered beside Queen Isiemkheb in the hiding-place at Deir el Baharî, is tied to one of the legs of the chair.
The calm strength of the lion in repose, the stealthy and sleepy tread of the leopard, the grimace of the ape, the slender grace of the gazelle and the antelope, have never been better expressed than in Egypt.
Yet, if we examine the treatment of the farm servant who is cramming a goose, and, above all, the figure of the standing man who throws his weight upon the neck of a gazelle to make it kneel down (fig.
The bowl is sometimes fashioned like an animal--as, for instance, a gazelle ready bound for the sacrifice (fig.
The horse, on the other hand, had been imported into the valley of the Nile, and is depicted pawing the ground where formerly the gazelle was seen cropping the pasturage.
Oft a gazelle doth make my heart her browsing stead * The while her form of flesh like sleep eludes mine eye: If in the lists of Law my bloodshed she deny, * Prove it two witnesses those cheeks of ruddy dye.
The bag was good considering the district, the poles on the servants' shoulders bending under the weight of two gazelle and countless birds of all sizes and plumage.
Hugh Carden Ali had gone a-hawking in a certain part of the desert near the ancient City of On, where gazelle is sometimes seen and birds are plentiful.
The glance she shot at the daughter of Arbaces was that of an unhooded falcon eyeing the gazelle upon the plains.
I saw a buck gazelle and fired both barrels of the Express, and missed.
A little gazelle came to drink: instead of my waiting in order to get a broadside shot, I fired at it while it was looking at me, and the result was to break one of its fore-legs.
My gun-bearers were soon roasting the hind-quarters of the gazelle on the ashes, and also eating some parts of it raw.
The gazelle is by no means an easy thing to hit with a rifle when it is going fast, as it is very small.
I stopped to rest for a short time; a little gazelle ran out and crossed the river bed a little way off.
For though the fact of the hyæna being sometimes bought with the ibex and gazelle might seem to justify the belief that it was also eaten, there is no instance of its being slaughtered for the table.
But one day when the gazelle went into the forest the food it liked was very scarce, and it wandered on further than it had ever gone before.
The gazelle told him that he and his master had come a long way through the forest in safety, and were within a day's journey of the city when they had been set upon by robbers.
Haamdaanee stripped off his rags and stepped into the stream, and while he was still bathing and bruising himself the gazelle bounded away to the palace of the king.
When Haamdaanee heard from thegazelle all that he had done, and how the palace and the treasures of the snake now belonged to him, he did not know what to do with himself for joy.
You get a piece of money nobody knows how nor where, and then instead of buying for yourself a good meal you spend it for a gazelle which will also need food.
They went on and on until they were within a day's journey of the king's palace, and then the gazelle stopped.
So they lived there very happily, and the little gazelle had soft cushions to lie on, and all the milk and rice that it could eat, so it did not have to run off into the forest any more, but could stay in the palace and take its ease.
Now all this time Haamdaanee had been mourning his gazelleas lost.
At first Haamdaanee could not believe what the gazelle told him, but when he had heard the whole story he was filled with terror.
Haamdaanee took the gazelle aside and said to it, "What are we to do now?
The gazelle was ready, and the moment the head appeared it cut it off with the sword, and the sword was so very sharp and keen that the snake did not feel the blow.
This king had a daughter who was so beautiful that the fame of her had spread everywhere; even Haamdaanee and his gazelle had heard of her.
The gazelle then unwrapped the leaves from the diamond and presented it to the king.
For a time the old woman refused but the gazelle talked so sweetly that after a time she consented and allowed the little animal to slip through the crack of the door and into the house.
They started out, and the gazelleran along to show them the way.
As soon as she saw the gazelle she seemed frightened to death.
The mythical description of the rising sun as a hind or gazelle is explained by the animal’s horns; for the myth which regards the Sun’s rays sometimes as arrows, sometimes as locks of hair, also treats them sometimes as horns.
