 | 1836 - 600 páginas
...saw that I must inevitably be caught should I fire in this position and my shot not take effect. ' I therefore retreated hastily out of their direct path,...find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken ; for, on looking back, I perceived, to my dismay, that they had left their former course,... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 páginas
...effect. I therefore retreated hastily out of the direct path, thinking they would not observe me till I should find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken ; for, on looking back, I perceived, to my dismay, that they had left their former course,... | |
 | 1830 - 614 páginas
...saw that I must inevitably be caught, should I fire in this position, and my shot not take effect. I therefore retreated hastily out of their direct path,...find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken, for on looking back I perceived to my dismay, that they had left their former course,... | |
 | 1830 - 222 páginas
...saw that I must inevitably be caught, should I fire in this position, and my shot not take effect. I therefore retreated hastily out of their direct path,...find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken, for on looking back I perceived,'to my dismay, that they hod left their former course,... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 422 páginas
...saw that I must inevitably be caught, should I fire in this position, and my shot not take effect. I therefore retreated hastily out of their direct path,...find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken, for on looking1 back I perceived, to my dismay, that they had left their former course,... | |
 | 1832 - 602 páginas
...saw that I must inevitably be caught should I fire in this situation, and my shot not take effect. I therefore retreated hastily out of their direct path,...thinking they would not observe me, until I should have a better opportunity to attack them. But in this 1 was mistaken : for on looking back 1 perceived... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Josiah Conder - 1835 - 716 páginas
...saw that I must inevitably be caught, should I fire in this position, and my shot not take effect. I therefore retreated hastily out of their direct path,...find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken, for on looking back I perceived, to my dismay, that they had left their former course,... | |
 | John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie - 1835 - 370 páginas
...saw that I must inevitably be caught, should I fire in this position and my shot not take effect. I therefore retreated hastily out of their direct path,...find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken; for, on looking back, I perceived, to my dismay, that they had left their former course... | |
 | 1836 - 600 páginas
...thinking they would not observe me, until I should find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken ; for, on looking back, I perceived,...and gaining ground on me. Under these circumstances, I determined to reserve my fire as a last resource ; and, turning off at right angles in the opposite... | |
 | 1836 - 602 páginas
...that I must inevitably be caught should I fire in this position and my shot not take effect. • I therefore retreated hastily out of their direct path,...find a better opportunity to attack them. But in this I was mistaken ; for, on looking back, I perceived, to my dismay, that they had left their former course,... | |
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As they were not more than two hundred yards off, and were proceeding directly towards me, I had not much time to decide on my motions. Being alone, and in the middle of a little open plain, I saw that I must inevitably be caught, should I fire in this... 
