 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 358 pages
...about thirty wild horses and mules, they drove them into the pool in which were the electrical Eels. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...combat. These yellowish and livid Eels, resembling larger aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray - 1832 - 436 pages
...which they drove into the pool. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses* hoofs makes the fishes issue from the mud,, and excites them to combat. These...yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic snakes, swim at the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. The... | |
 | 1833 - 646 pages
...result from Humboldt himself: ' " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fishes issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These...yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic snakes, swim at the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. The... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 pages
...about thirty wild horses aud mules, they drove them into the pool in which were the electrical eels. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling larger aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. THE. GYMNOTl'8. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs,...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat ; they swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1839 - 606 pages
...description of the Indian mode of fishing for gymnoti, by means of horses : — " The exraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish...combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling largo aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 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,...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat; they swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and moles. A contest... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1840 - 294 pages
...thirty horses and mules, which they forthwith drove into the pool. A singular scene then ensued. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs,...makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them io combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling COMBAT BETWEEN THE EELS AND HORSES. 117 large... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - 1843 - 810 pages
...has furnished us with the following graphic description of the Indian mode of fishing for gymnoti, by means of horses : — " The extraordinary noise...horses and mules. A contest between animals of so differrent an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons... | |
 | Tracts for the people - 1847 - 800 pages
...from the mod, and excites them to combat These yel lowish and livid eels, resembling large acquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the hores and mules. A contest between animals of so dif ferent an organization furnishes a very striking... | |
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The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the 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, and crowd under the bellies of the... 
