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" When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious effusion of blood preventing the... "
Monthly Journal of Science, and Annals of Biology, Astronomy, Geology ... - Page 172
edited by - 1869
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Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, Volume 8

Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1856 - 418 pages
...and almost hourly, and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under them. When a Durian strikes a man in its fall it produces a fearful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of ..., Volume 2

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful...chief informed me that he had been struck down by a durion falling on his head, which he thought would certainly have caused his death, yet he recovered...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Oranguatan, and the Bird of Paradise ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 692 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful...the inflammation which might otherwise take place. A Dytk chief informed me that he had been struck down by a dfrion falling on his head, which he thought...
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The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar ...

Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 pages
...not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When it strikes a man in the fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines...open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy. Poets and moralists, judging from the European trees and fruits, have said that small fruits alone...
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The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar ...

Georg Hartwig - 1872 - 780 pages
...happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When it strikes a man in the fall, it products a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy. Poets and moralists, judging from the European trees and fruits, have said that small fruits alone...
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The Malay Archipelago, the Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1877 - 728 pages
...dangerous. When the fruit begins to ripen it falls daily and almost hourly, and accidents not xmfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees....the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstauce death rarely ensues, the copious effusion of blood preventing the inflammation which might...
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The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Popular and Scientific Description of Man ...

Georg Hartwig - 1877 - 868 pages
...not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When it strikes a man in the fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is verj heavy. Poets and moralists, judging from the European trees and fruits, have said that small fruits...
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A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya

Nicholas Belfield Dennys - 1894 - 468 pages
...sometimes dangerous. When the fruit begins to ripen it falls daily and almost hourly, and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working...the inflammation which might otherwise take place. The old traveller LINSCHOTT, writing in 1599, says : — " It is of such an excellent taste that it...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 674 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently hapgen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful...chief informed me that he had been struck down by a durion falling on his head, which he thought would certainly have caused his death, yet he recovered...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 38

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Henry Warner, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle - 1897 - 628 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful...chief informed me that he had been struck down by a durion falling on his head, which he thought would certainly have caused his death, yet he recovered...
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