 | 1820 - 486 էջ
...idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing; but we soon saw our guides return from the savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they fbwced to enter the pool. . ^ , • ..^he extraordinary noise caused by the horses1 hoofs makes the... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1828 - 468 էջ
...therefore said they would fish with horses, and the guides were soon seen returning from the savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules....The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, made the fish issue from the mud, and excited them to combat. The yellow and livid eels, which resembled... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 358 էջ
...about thirty wild horses and mules, they drove them into the pool in which were the electrical Eels. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...combat. These yellowish and livid Eels, resembling larger aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray - 1832 - 436 էջ
...with horses, and soon brought from the savannah about thirty of these animals, which they drove into the pool. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses* hoofs makes the fishes issue from the mud,, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling... | |
 | 1833 - 646 էջ
...result from Humboldt himself: ' " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fishes issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These...yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic snakes, swim at the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. The... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 էջ
...about thirty wild horses aud mules, they drove them into the pool in which were the electrical eels. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling larger aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses... | |
 | 1834 - 536 էջ
...idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules....with them, which they forced to enter the pool. THE. GYMNOTl'8. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud,... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1839 - 606 էջ
...description of the Indian mode of fishing for gymnoti, by means of horses : — " The exraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish...combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling largo aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 էջ
...idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules....fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat; they swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and moles. A contest... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1840 - 294 էջ
...thirty horses and mules, which they forthwith drove into the pool. A singular scene then ensued. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs,...makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them io combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling COMBAT BETWEEN THE EELS AND HORSES. 117 large... | |
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The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels resemble large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses... 
