 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...INDIAN GIBL IN TBE LLANOS. 115 prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. The travellers had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed.... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. We had little...terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed.... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pages
...but only stunned. They are drowned from the impos349 sibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. We had little...terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed.... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses arid the eels. ' We had little doubt that the fishing would...terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed.... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus ctefiacus of the abdominal nerves. It... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus eceliants of the abdominal nerves. It... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pages
...minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus ccrliacus of the abdominal nerves. It... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus cxliacus of the abdominal nerves. It is... | |
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It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus cxliacus of the abdominal nerves. It is natural that the effect felt by the horses should be more powerful than that produced upon man, by the touch of the same fish, at only one of his extremities.... 
