When bands of caribou are met in winter they are driven into deep snow banks, and, unable to help themselves, are speared at will.
Thus the animal continues its course, the hunters holding on to the rope, till its strength is exhausted, when, other canoes coming up, it is speared to death.
Many of the fish are stupefied by the tuba and, as they rise struggling to the surface, are speared by the Dyaks.
That would make a corking picture," said Hawkinson enthusiastically, "if I only knew which fellow was going to be speared so that I could get the camera focussed on him.
They spearedmy poor, dear husband as he went out to find something for me to eat.
But before he could make up his mind, down came the pole through the water; there was a fearful splash and struggle, and Tom saw that the poor salmon was speared right through, and was lifted out of the water.
But they speared him, poor fellow, and I saw them carrying him away upon a pole.
A deadly tumult ensued with such suddenness that Lingard, turning round swiftly, saw his defender, already speared in three places, fall forward at his feet.
Not only himself but anybody from the Emma would be sure to be rushed upon and speared in twenty places.
I shall be probably speared through the back in the beastliest possible fashion," he thought with an inward shudder.
The Australian savage, when he has speared a kangaroo, makes his wife cook it, then selects the juiciest cuts for himself and the other men, leaving the bones to the women and dogs.
They appeared in no way afraid of us as we approached, and Mango and his brother speared several.
We had no doubt that it was one of the creatures which had been speared at the hopo hunt when Stanley was present, and having escaped, had wandered thus far from its usual haunts.
The "mascos" werespeared at night by the aid of a jack-light; they were even shot from the shore as they were lazily swaggering along in the shallow water.
I have heard an octogenarian, whose truthfulness even in a fish story I had no reason to doubt, declare that he had frequently, when a boy, speared fifty or sixty whitefish in one night.
I am certain, so great was the love of fair-play among these natives, that had I not killed the chief with my stiletto, his own people would promptly have speared him.
The usual routine was to set fire to the bush, and then as the terrified animals and reptiles rushed out in thousands into the open, each party of blacks speared every living thing that came its way within a certain sphere.
To catch emus the hunters would construct little shelters of grass at a spot overlooking the water-hole frequented by these birds, and they were then speared as they came down for water.
Or he might have been speared before a strange tribe could have discovered his "sacred" (idiotic) condition.
And how would you like to be speared by the blacks?
The warriors leaped to their feet, highly incensed at the cowardly act, and some of them would actually have speared their chief then and there had I not forestalled them.
Mitchell drove the ball straight over Joe's head, but the latter leaped high in the air and speared it with his gloved hand, while the stands rocked with applause.
Iredell was robbed of a hit by a great jumping catch of O'Connor, who speared the ball with his gloved hand.
Women as well as men were cut down or speared as the horses overtook them.
The chargers of the staff were speared but the English officers fought on foot till all were killed.
Kondwana found that, overcome by fatigue, the two sentries had fallen asleep at their post, so he speared them with his own hand.
Every now and then men dropped, unable to proceed further, and were at once speared by their companions.
When they had speared out all they could reach, they emptied the vat on the floor, and then with shovels scraped up the balance and dumped it into the truck.
It seemed that he was working in the room where the men prepared the beef for canning, and the beef had lain in vats full of chemicals, and men with great forks speared it out and dumped it into trucks, to be taken to the cooking room.
His father was angry, and so off went Manono with a spear and speared a fish and took it to his father.
But whatever the explanation may be, this particular moorhen that I saw certainly did destroy five of its own eggs, carrying them off, speared on its bill, in the way I have described.
Beyond the sands, we saw a dense green line of mangrove trees extending along a salt water creek, which we headed, and in which Brown speared the first salt water mullet.
Most like he's dead by this time, speared or the like of that!
So quick were their movements that the skirmishers had hardly time to reach the square, and one man was overtaken and speared before he reached it.
Among them lay camels which had been hamstrung or speared by the natives, broken cacolets, and water tanks and skins, medical stores, and a confusion of articles of all kinds.
If he had taken service permanently, his tribe would have speared him, so jealous were they of their liberty, and, like many others better instructed, rejecting the good things within their reach.
He looked round triumphantly at Tom; then bent once more over the water, and soon speared another fish in the same way.
The commandant was hit, and spearedas he lay; his men, paralysed with fright, either stood until they were shot down, or plunged into the swamp and met their death in the ooze.
Some of the enemy, however, scorning to yield, fought with the courage of despair to the bitter end, and were shot down or speared after they had themselves done great execution on the now crowded ranks of their assailants.
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