 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 pages
...minutes two horses were drowned. The eel being five feet long, ;<"..! pressing itself agaiust the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent...by killing, successively, all the animals engaged, but, by degrees, the impetuosity of this unequal contest diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed.... | |
 | William Wright - 1858 - 426 pages
...minutes, two horses were drowned ; the eel being five feet long, and pressing itself against the bellies of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. The horses are probably not killed, but only stunned ; they are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 pages
...impossibility of rising amid the 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.... | |
 | 1860 - 874 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 of abdominal nerves. i We had little... | |
 | William Jardine - 1861 - 370 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 of abdominal nerves. We had little doubt... | |
 | George Hanneman Bennett - 1866 - 366 pages
...two of our horses were drowned. The eel being fire 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 caeliac fold of the abdominal nerves. It is natural... | |
 | 1872 - 504 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...the prolonged struggles between the other horses and eels. " We had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the animals... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 234 pages
...amid the furious and protracted struggle between the other horses and the eels. Humboldt says that he had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing, successively, all the animals engaged; but by degrees the impetuosity of the unequal combat diminished, and the wearied eels retired, to repair,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1881 - 372 pages
...two of our 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 is natural that the effect felt by the horses should be more powerful than that produced upon man... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1883 - 412 pages
...two horses were drowned. • The eel being five feet long, and pressing itself against the bellies of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ ; the horses were probably not killed, only stunned. They were drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the... | |
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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.... 
