Beyond the blue loom of the mountains men were robbing and murdering, hunting one another like beasts of the jungle in the name of this or that "cause"; committing frightful infamies in the sacred name of love.
Trotting back whence he had come, he entered the jungle before the hunters could get within shooting distance of him, and was never more seen by any of the three.
Then there were dark woods and thick tangled jungle tracts, where it was almost impossible to make one's way through.
The hunters go armed with rifles and spears; and attended by a large number of natives, who beat the jungle and drive the game within reach of the sportsmen.
They might have got up a grand battue to beat the jungle and attack the tiger in his lair, but what would have come of that?
Three years later, when the timbers for the four boats with which he intended to explore the Pacific had been prepared, thirty Negroes were among those who carried them piece by piece over mountain and jungle from Acla to San Miguel.
To the lay mind of the modern world, Africa is a gigantic jungle of barbarians, bamboo and baboons, where Livingstone traveled, Rhodes prospected, and Roosevelt hunted.
What health was there, he demanded hotly, in holding in a dripping jungleto morals, to etiquette, to fashions of conduct?
Hearing the crash behind him, Chesterton guessed that in the jungle a tree had fallen.
Outside the café Matadi lay smothered and sweltering in a black, living darkness, and, save for the rush of the river, in a silence that continued unbroken across a jungle as wide as Europe.
The Bhumij Kols of the Jungle Mahals were once the terror of the surrounding districts; they are now more peaceful.
The hills are densely clothed with tree jungle and large forest timber.
Karam for about two hours, when it diverged: it thence after passing through some heavy jungle continued up the steep bed of the now dry Dailoom; it next diverged again about 2 P.
Tree jungle considerable, open places with low grass, is the surrounding feature of vegetation.
All the blue cloths of the Shans are dyed, Bayfield informs me, with Ruellia, or jungle indigo.
All the jungle immediately adjoining the town is cut down; many of the houses are unroofed, and all the gates are guarded.
The jungle surrounding the springs ceases abruptly, the ground around, and among them, being covered with stunted grass and a few small herbaceous plants.
The jungle in which the tree occurs is of the usual heavy description, presenting in fact no one feature in particular.
The jungle extends down to both edges of the water, and the stream is not divided into branches.
In seven miles of jungle we observed eighty trees, by far the greater portion of which were of large size.
Direction southwest, the distance 12 miles, the course extending at first over low hills and difficult ground, thence through heavy jungle intersected by narrow plains, lastly chiefly along the banks of the Darap Panee.
About three miles beyond it, there is a beautiful ravine with dense jungle and fine trees, chiefly Laurinea, and I think a Rhus; this is the only spot I have seen reminding me of the Himalaya to the eastward.
Karam, we then traversed for a long way heavy jungle in a S.
Distance 10 miles, course over small plains and through jungle until we reached Kuwa Bhoom, which we ascended in a WNW.
Wild Island and Tangerina are joined together by a long string of rocks, but people never go to Wild Island because it's mostly jungle and inhabited by very wild animals.
Here the jungle was so thick that he could hardly see where the river was.
Was he surprised when he looked and saw fourteen green eyes coming out of the jungle all around the clearing, and when the green eyes turned into seven tigers!
My father hated to leave the beach, but he decided to start along the river bank where at least the jungle wasn't quite so thick.
The deeper into the jungle he went the surer he was that something was following him, and then he thought he heard whispery noises on both sides of him as well as behind.
There was but one hope--to break out, to meet the soldiers hand to hand and fight for passage to the friendly jungle and to the sea, where they might trust to that Providence who appears to help even the wicked sometimes.
The two friends rode side by side for miles through the jungle of fern and palm, and then began to enter a more open but scrubby country.
A wild cry rose from the jungle behind and from the clearing ahead, and in a moment the infuriated French soldiers were in the thick of a hand-to-hand fray under a rain of spears and clubs.
Hitherto the want of cavalry and the density of jungle had prevented our following up our successes, but at Pagahm the Governor-General's Bodyguard was able to reach the flying Burmese, cutting up a large number.
On the beach stood some Erromangan natives, with their eyes (half fierce, half frightened) looking out under their matted jungle of hair.
He was slowly opening a road through the jungle of cruelty and the marshes of dread of the gods that made the life of the Baganda people dark and dreadful.
Táme, a gigantic spirit, that dwells in the untraveled jungle and beguiles the traveler to his doom.
Also flat braided bands of jungle fiber covered with white beads are sometimes used.
At this point a few of the visitors again hasten down the notched pole, and gather up out of the grass or underbrush in the adjacent jungle the concealed presents.
It is used for catching wild pigeons, jungle fowl, and other birds.
Terrified at such a miracle the King of the Jungle covered eight yards at a bound and vanished in a twinkling into the depths of the forest.
Said Manuel, very sadly: "I cry the elegy of such notions as are possible to boys alone.
Inside the hut Manuel lighted his four candles, and he disposed of one under each umbrella in the prescribed manner.
Then in the gray dusk was revealed a face that was not human, and the round toothless mouth of it spoke feebly, saying, "I am Lubrican, and I come to guide you if you dare follow.
Dom Manuel told her that he desired to make an animated and lively figure.
Now the second day after Ruric had died, the season now being June, Count Manuel stood at the three windows, and saw in the avenue of poplars his wife, Dame Niafer, walking hand in hand with little Melicent.
It was noticeable that from the death-wound came no blood, but only a flowing of very fine black sand, out of which scrambled and hastily scampered away a small vermilion-colored mouse.
She wondered at him, she was perturbed by this fine lad's incomprehensible dreariness, with soft red willing lips so near: and her dark eyes were bent upon him with a beautiful and tender yearning which may not be told.
I recall now the droll credulity of a lad who watched a shining feather burned, while he sat within arm's reach thinking about cabbage soup, because his grave elders assured him that a feather could never be of any use to anybody.
I restored the magic to the robe of the Apsarasas when but for me its magic would have been lost irrevocably.
Manuel obeyed, and you could see nobody anywhere in the forest's dusk.
I, being blind, could not perceive your blindness which blindly strove to understand me, and which hungered for understanding, as I for love.
Thus did the promptitude and prudence of the juvenile general save his character from compromise, and his little army from disaster.
Tempted, however, by the unanimous support of the people, he assumed on his own account the authority he till now had held in behalf of his nephew.
The Countess died four years after, in childbed of a daughter.
But, in the multifarious projects which agitated his yet elastic mind, the interests of his again favourite nephew were not forgotten.
The jungle has been, in part, cleared away, and here and there a solitary hut greets the eye.
The pathless jungle is endeared to them by every association which influences the human mind, and they languish when prevented from roaming there as inclination dictates.
The jungle on the left bank having been cleared, we did not much expect any skirmishers; but some spies were heard near our boats.
Against the sky, where the jungle had been cleared, I could distinctly see the outlines of human beings.
My occupation's over for the present, and I retire with content to solitude and the jungle of Sarawak.
The banks of the river were here so confined, that a man might with ease throw a spear across; and, as the jungle was close, it was necessary to keep pretty well on the alert.
Although as yet we had only heard our enemies, our rapid advance with a strong tide must have been seen by them from the jungle on the various hills which now rose to our view.
So ended the adventures of the night in the wild jungle of Borneo.
On the top of this bank the jungle had been cleared for about thirty yards, and on this Lieutenant Gunnel, with seven royal marines, was posted as a rear-guard.
In the evening walked ashore, but the junglewas wet after rain.
Attempts were made to molest the native boats by hurling spears into them from the jungle under cover of the night; but after a few discharges of musketry the enemy retired, leaving us to enjoy another stormy and rainy night as we best could.
But he had little time to think about it, for scarcely had his attention again returned to the jungle in front of him when some dozen dusky figures appeared, creeping across the open space which separated them from the bank.
Then once more the shouting and the incessant beat of gongs was heard, while the jungle became alive with moving figures, who fired at their foes and sent spears and arrows swishing in their direction.
Soon they were at a point where the belt ofjungle and swamp came to an end, and here they paused while Tyler waded out into the stream and looked carefully about him.
And round about them every tree hid an enemy, while the jungle was alive with the voices of the pirates, and the incessant jangle of gongs and the beat of war-drums.
Indeed, many in your case would have been content to lie in the jungle and remain hidden, for these Dyaks might well have proved enemies, and for the sake of their own safety might have handed you over to the Dutchman and his pirates.
A glance at once showed that the woodman's axe had been busy here, and had kept the jungle at bay.
For three hours in succession did our hero and his followers lie in the jungle with their eyes glued upon the distant lair of the pirates.
Soon they broke into a trot, Tyler being in advance, and this they kept up for half an hour, when the jungle thickened and made rapid progress impossible.
That will give us a good five miles ofjungle through which to retire and harass the foe.
Some fellow amongst them has his wits about him, for he has pointed out to them that though there is a clear space round this rock, yet bushes crop out from one side almost to the edge of the jungle which surrounds us.
Of the pirates there was no sign at first, but as Tyler's head appeared over the top, they emerged from the edge of the jungle and set up a shout of defiance.
At once the faithful fellow dived into the junglewhich grew close up to the edge of the river, leaving Tyler to make the preparations necessary for a meal.
Scene: The junglecity of Thek in the reign of King Karnos.
The fact that one denizen of the jungle had paid the boat a visit was ground for looking for a call from another.
Some animal had caught sight of him, and, scared by the vision, had leaped into the jungle at the side.
The question that was to be quickly answered was whether the fearful brute would allow himself to be turned aside from the path and withdraw again into the jungle with his thirst unslaked.
We must not forget that there are perils from the jungle as well as from the river.
I see no risk in pushing through the jungle by day, since the only foes we are likely to encounter are four-footed ones.
To step aside into the jungle would immediately involve one in so inextricable a tangle that he could move only with the greatest difficulty.
But, looking in that direction, Jack caught the gleam of a pair of eyes, peering from the gloom like the orbs of a jungle tiger gathering himself for a spring.
The missionary always kept a loaded revolver for use when traveling through the jungle at night, and he speedily stepped out on the veranda, with the weapon in hand, and started to find the cobra.
I will guide you through the jungle to a safe point, and will watch over you till all danger is gone.
Within the dim hush of the jungle he was unable to discern the slightest disturbance of the earth.
For the most part, he passed through a kind of neutral territory, where the dominion of the jungle gave way to the barren, rock-bound slopes of Solitude Peak.
The slope grew steeper and steeper, until at last they were confronted by a sharp, rocky bluff which enclosed the jungle like a wall.
I discovered that in the jungle in this valley elephants abound; moreover, these elephants are finer than any others I have ever seen in any part of Africa, even those of the East Coast, whose tusks are stored at Zanzibar.
It was two o'clock when the caravan began to move through the jungle towards the Kasai.
As it drew nearer to daybreak, the sounds of the jungle ceased.
Max, obeying Crouch's orders, broke into the jungle on the left, whereas Edward moved to the right.
We have said that the wild, impenetrable jungle had ceased abruptly, and they found themselves surrounded by granite hills, in the centre of which lay a plain of glaring sand.
Backwoodsmen though they were, they had no desire to face a hostile tribe in jungle so dense that it would scarcely be possible to lift a rifle to the present.
The current became stronger every mile, since the banks grew nearer together, and several jungle streams joined forces with the river.
The Portuguese himself was doubtless still searching in the jungle for Crouch and Max, and no doubt he had left this fellow in charge of his canoe.
Now, since it was two and a half days' journey up the river, it would take them months to force their way through the jungle to the south.
Max also strained his ears to catch the slight sound in the jungle which had aroused the suspicion of these experienced hunters.
The jungle boy was a lover of birds, and hunted animals with a bow and arrow and his trusty machete.
The first and second Jungle books have waited too long for this new companion; but it is now on its way.
From the pemmican's fierce claws and the tiffin's gaping jaws I have never shrunk in abject terror yet; In the jungle I have tracked them and attacked them and then hacked them Into mincemeat with my trusty calumet.
My friend the rubber planter has also had one or two good travelling elephants on which he used to travel through the jungle from one plantation to the other, a distance of twenty-five miles.
Nearby the place where those of the Shwe Dagon sleep I stood on the temple walls and looked out on the fading beauty of the tropic sunset, the silvery outline of the Irrawaddy River breaking into the darkening green of the jungle growth.
The soil and climate along the route are well suited to the cultivation of rubber trees, and considerable areas have recently been cleared of the dense jungle growth and set to young rubber plants.
She had gained promotion through jungle fever, which had carried her off in three days.
They were printing the edition that took the world's news to planters' bungalows in the jungle of Assam and the lonely policemen on the edge of Manipore.
Well, the jungle was cleared at last, and this clearance, it was determined, should be extended and made double the width at least.
The bottom of the forest slope at last, and now an open park-like stretch lay between them and the patch of junglewhich ran down to where they had left the boat.
Yes, and a walk at the jungle edge, butterfly-catching," cried Sir John eagerly.
They'll be grand for you when you're going through the junglewhere there's leeches and poisonous snakes.
