 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...words of the traveller : — " 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 pages
...discovered which abounds with them, a number of wild horses and mules are surrounded and forced into it. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the sand, and incites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents,... | |
 | John Esaias Warren - 1851 - 284 pages
..."The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofe makes the fish issue from the sand, and incites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling...the horses and mules. A contest between animals of such different organizations furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons... | |
 | John Esaias Warren - 1851 - 284 pages
...discovered which abounds with them, a number of wild horses and mules are surrounded and forced into it. "The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the sand, and incites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 540 pages
...secundum, Malpighia reticulata. + Meaning to excite the fish by horses. SINGULAB METHOD OF FISHING. 115 aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...contest between animals of so different an organization presents a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 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, makes the fish issue from the mud, in which they bury themselves, and excites them to combat; they swim on the surface of the water, and... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 538 pages
...Malpighia reticulata. •)• Meaning to excite the fish by horses. SINGULA.K METHOD Or FISHING. 115 aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the hellies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization presents... | |
 | William Lewis Herndon - 1853 - 488 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...horses and mules. A contest between animals of so dioerent an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and... | |
 | William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon - 1853 - 460 pages
...forced to enter the pool. " Thfl extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fishissue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish...swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bailies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - 574 pages
...noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to the attack. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic...contest between animals of so different an organization presents a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround... | |
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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... 
