India [Salsette Island] Circa 1849
Anna Harriette Leonowens, Life and Travel in India, Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, 1897, Chapter III, p. 54.
At another small village, named Viarè, we came upon what seemed a jungle, open in some parts and in others densely thick, abounding in hyenas, tigers, panthers, and the wild-boar; passing through this with anything but pleasurable feelings, we reached Toolsey….
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France, 1892:
Edward Harrison Barker, Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside, 1894, Chapter: The Upper Dordogne.
‘You will never do it. There are rocks, and rocks, and rocks. Even the fishermen, who go where anybody can go, do not try to follow the Dordogne very far. There are ravines—and ravines. Bon Dieu! And the forest! You will be lost! You will be devoured!’
To be devoured would be the climax of misfortune. I wished to know what animals would be likely to stop my wayfaring in this effectual manner.
‘Are there wolves?’
‘No; none have been seen for years.’
‘Are there boars?
‘Yes, plenty of them.’
‘But boars,’ I said, ‘are not likely to interfere with me.’
‘That is true,’ replied the local wiseacre, ‘so long as you keep walking; but if you fall down a rock—ah!’
