 | 1861 - 712 páginas
...seem loud and distinct, the woods were at once filled with the tremendous barking roar of the gorilla. Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and...I think I shall never forget. Nearly six feet high (he proved four inches shorter), with immense body, huge chest, and great muscular arms, with fiercely... | |
 | Henry Jones Thaddeus - 1912 - 404 páginas
...resist quoting, in his own words, the story of his first encounter with that progenitor of mankind. " Presently before us stood an immense male gorilla. He had gone through the jungle on all-fours, but when he saw our party he raised himself erect, and looked us boldly in the face. He... | |
 | Mary Hastings Bradley - 1922 - 348 páginas
...and presently before us stood an immense male gorilla. He had gone through the jungle on all fours ; but when he saw our party he erected himself and looked...about a dozen yards from us and was a sight I think never to forget. Nearly six feet high (he proved two inches shorter) with immense body, huge chest,... | |
 | Carl Ethan Akeley - 1923 - 308 páginas
...will see that he did nothing that a domestic dog might not have done under the same circumstances. Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and...about a dozen yards from us [and was a sight I think never to forget]. Nearly six feet high (he proved two inches shorter), with immense body, huge chest,... | |
 | 1903 - 650 páginas
...loud and distinct, the woods were at once filled with the tremendous barking loar of the gorilla. '' Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and...his all-fours; but when he saw our party he erected him self and looked us boldly in the face. He stood about a dozen yards from us, and was a sight I... | |
 | Jonathan S. Adams, Thomas O. McShane - 1996 - 324 páginas
...During his travels in Gabon, du Chaillu was also the first European to describe the gorilla in the wild: The underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead and presently...I think I shall never forget. Nearly six feet high with immense body, huge chest, and great muscular arms, with fiercely glaring large deep grey eyes,... | |
 | Klaus Geus, Klaus Zimmermann - 2001 - 426 páginas
...demonstrate this; it deals with the killing of "my first gorilla" (as the chapter heading has it): Before us stood an immense male gorilla. He had gone...I think I shall never forget. Nearly six feet high (he proved four inches shorter), with immense body, huge chest, and great muscular arms, with fiercely-glaring... | |
 | John A. Keel - 2002 - 360 páginas
...1856, when Paul du Chaillu returned from the Congo and described his encounter with a hairy giant. "He stood about a dozen yards from us, and was a sight I think I shall never forget," Du Chaillu reported. "Nearly six feet high, with immense body, huge chest, and great muscular arms,... | |
 | 1862 - 720 páginas
...seem loud and distinct, the woods were at once filled with the tremendous barking roar of the gorilla. Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and...about a dozen yards from us, and was a sight I think never to forget. Nearly six feet high, (he proved four inches shorter,) with immense body, huge chest,... | |
 | 1862 - 962 páginas
...seem loud and distinct, the woods were at once filled with the tremendous barking roar of the gorilla. "Then the underbrush swayed rapidly just ahead, and...about a dozen yards from us, and was a sight I think never to forget. Nearly six feet high (he proved four inches shorter), with immense body, huge chest,... | |
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Suddenly, as we were yet creeping along, in a silence which made a heavy breath seem loud and distinct, the woods were at once filled with the tremendous barking roar of the gorilla. 
