 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pàgines
...shore, stumbling at every step, and stretched themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and with limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. In less than five minutes two of the horses were drowned. The eels being five feet long, and pressing themselves against the belly... | |
 | 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 - 592 pàgines
...in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with...long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes T 2 a discharge a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pàgines
...in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with...long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes Y 2 a discharge a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pàgines
...in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with...long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of it's electric organ. It attacks at once the heart,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pàgines
...regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue,1 and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of...long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of it's electric organ. It attacks at once the heart,... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pàgines
...the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the ihore, stumbling at every step, and itretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and...by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. In less than fire minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself against the... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pàgines
...in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with...their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoii. ' In less than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pàgines
...in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumb* td by the electric shocks of the pymnoti. •] ' -.r -. " In less than five minutes two horses... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pàgines
...in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with...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,... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pàgines
...in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with...benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. In leas than five minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five feet long, and pressing itself... | |
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... the storm by which they are overtaken. They are driven back by the Indians into the middle of the water; but a small number succeed in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves... 
