 We 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. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment,...  Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon - Pàgina 349per William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon - 1854Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pàgines
...horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of it's electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus coeliacus of the abdominal...The gymnoti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small harpoons fastened to long cords. When the cords are very dry,... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pàgines
...extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus ctefiacus of the abdominal nerves. It is natural, that the effect...The gymnoti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small harpoons, fastened to long cords. When the cords are very dry,... | |
 | 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 - 622 pàgines
...extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus caliacus of the abdominal nerves. It is natural that the effect...manes are no longer bristled, and their eyes express 1ess dread. The gymnoti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pàgines
...extremities. The horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impos349 sibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the...The gymnoti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small harpoons fastened to long cords. When the cords are very dry,... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pàgines
...drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses arid the eels. ' We had little doubt that the fishing would...The gymnoti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small harpoons fastened to long cords. When the cords are very dry... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pàgines
...rest, and abundant nourishment, •to repair what they have lost of galvanic force. The iimles ant) horses appear less frightened, their manes are no...longer bristled, and their eyes express less dread. "'JPhe gyrcuioti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small harpoons... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pàgines
...extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart, the intestines, and the plexus cxliacus of the abdominal nerves. It is natural that the effect...The gymnoti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small harpoons fastened to long cords. When the cords are very dry,... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pàgines
...the same fish at only one of his extremities. The horses are probably not killed, but only Btunncd. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising...The gymnoti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small harpoons fastened to long cords. When the cords are very dry,... | |
 | 1820 - 468 pàgines
...little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged ; but byt degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished,...The gymnoti approach timidly the edge of the marsh, where they are taken by means of small harpoons fastened to long cords. When the cords are very dry,... | |
| |
