 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...slender reeds, surrounded the pool closely, and some climbed up the trees, the branches of which extended horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevented the horses from running away and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by the... | |
 | 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 - 622 pages
...contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround...length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from ruuning away and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, sUmned by the noise, defend themselves by... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pages
...organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender feeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the...prevent the horses from running- away, and reaching the batik of the pool. The eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their... | |
 | 1824 - 188 pages
...some climb upoo the trees, the branch, es of which extend horizontally over the surface of (he-water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds,...of the pool. The Eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselvet by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries, and, during a long time, seem to... | |
 | 1825 - 448 pages
...contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely; and some climb upon (he trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By tbeir wild cries,... | |
 | 1820 - 486 pages
...between animals of so .different aa .organisation furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround...closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches -of.which extend horizontally over the surface of the j^a^er., By tb«ir wild cries, and the length... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...contest between animals of so different an organisation furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround...By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, thry prevent the horses from running away, and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 376 pages
...contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround...and reaching the bank of the pool. The Eels, stunned hy the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries. During a long... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 358 pages
...contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround...closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of r4 which extend horixontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of... | |
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Iiraians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool 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 reeds, they prevent... 
