| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, gwim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between... | |
| 1819 - 304 pages
...about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool, "•The extraordinary noise caused by fte horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud,...excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eel*, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the stttfecfc of the water, and crowd under the bellies... | |
| 1820 - 442 pages
...for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and li vid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the... | |
| William Bingley - 1820 - 368 pages
...horses' hoofs, on approaching and entering the water, made the fish issue from the mud, and excited them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swam on the surface of the water, and crowded under the bellies of the horses and mules. Several Indians,... | |
| 1822 - 194 pages
...Mules, and they had brought about thirty wiih them, which they immediately forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses hoofs, makes the Fish issue from the Uiiid, and excites them to combat : these yellowish and livid Eels, therefore, resembling large Water... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 pages
...horses' hoofs, on approaching and entering the water, made the fish issue from the mud, and excited them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swam on the surface of the water, and crowded under the belJies of the horses. Several Indians, furnished... | |
| 1824 - 188 pages
...savannah, with about thirty wild Horses and Mules, which they immediately forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses hoofs,...excites them to combat; these yellowish and livid Eels, there, fore, resembling large Water Serpents, swim on the surface of the lake, crowd under the bellies... | |
| 1820 - 486 pages
...them, which they fbwced to enter the pool. . ^ , • ..^he extraordinary noise caused by the horses1 hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites...of: the water, and crowd under the bellies of ; the ,horscs and mules. A contest between animals of so .different aa .organisation furnishes a very striking... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...mules. A contest between animals of so different an organisation furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 pages
...with horses. Having caught about thirty wild horses and mules, they forced them to enter the pool. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs,...mules. A contest between animals of so different an organisation, furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long, slender... | |
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