 | United States. Congress. House - 494 pages
...drowned, from the impossibility of rising, amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and be eels. "We had little doubt that the fishing would...by killing, successively, all the animals engaged; but, by degrees, the impetuosity of thi.s unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed.... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 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 organs. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus cceliacus of the abdominal nerves.... | |
 | Stephen R. Bown - 2002 - 284 pages
...the eels discharged repeatedly. "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," Humboldt related. Several of the panicked beasts, after receiving shocks "from all sides in organs... | |
 | 1882 - 708 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 were probably not killed, only stunned. They were drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the... | |
 | 1819 - 578 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 ccefiacus of the abdominal nerves. It... | |
 | 1820 - 782 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 cccliaciu of the abdominal nerves. It... | |
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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.... 
