Treasury of Discovery, Enterprise, and Adventure, Ed. by W. Anderson (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...him for a time from bringing into play those rapacious jaws, which, as the hunter's strength declined, were gradually advancing into a closer proximity with his face; such a fearful struggle could not be of long continuance. The burning eye-balls of the Cougar glared nearer and more near still, as they looked into the blood-shot orbits of the prostrate but fearless victim; their owner was forced to turn them aside from the encounter, as if conscious of the dastardly nature of his attack, and the superior bravery though inferior strength of the man upon whom he crouched. The powers of the man relaxed; nature had done her utmost--she was at length exhausted. The darkness of despair was on the point of plunging his senses in unconsciousness, and death was about to seize upon his victim, when the brushwood behind him cracked, and yielded before a heavy weight; the bay of a blood-hound awoke him to consciousness and hope; a large animal bounded on the merciless foe; the shock hurled the animal from its prey, and the brave hunter felt he was saved. Need I explain the occasion of this truly providential, and almost miraculous rescue? The favourite blood-hound, which, on quitting home, he had left behind him, had continued howling all day, as if possessing a sort of prophetic prescience of the accident by which his owner's life would be placed' in such extreme danger; and having at length broken loose, had gone forth in quest of his missing master, and found him in time, but only just in time, to save him from one of the most horrible of deaths.--From The Naturalist. DESCRIPTION OF A BULL-FIGHT IN SPAIN. There was no necessity to ask the road to the Plaza de Toros. Half the inhabitants of Seville seemed to be wending their way to their favourite amusement, some in ...