 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...on the surface of the water, and crowded under the bellies of the 114 BATTLE WITH ELECTRICAL EELS. horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization presented a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surrounded... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...closely; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild .cries, and the length of their... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, gwim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies...closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...to combat. These yellowish and livid eel*, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the stttfecfc of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses...and long slender . reeds, surround the pool closely ; an«i some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpooas and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their... | |
 | 1820 - 468 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim >on the surface of the water,...closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their... | |
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These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization, furnishes a very striking spectacle. 
