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... Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon - Pągina 349per William Lewis Herndon, Lardner Gibbon - 1854Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pągines
...on the surface of the water, and crowded under the bellies of the 114 BATTLE WITH ELECTRICAL EELS. horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization presented a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surrounded... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pągines
...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them...very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpooas and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pągines
...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them...and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, gwim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between... | |
| 1819 - 304 pągines
...them, which they forced to enter the pool, "•The extraordinary noise caused by fte horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud, and" excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eel*, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the stttfecfc of the water, and crowd under the bellies... | |
| 1820 - 442 pągines
...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and li vid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the... | |
| William Bingley - 1820 - 368 pągines
...horses' hoofs, on approaching and entering the water, made the fish issue from the mud, and excited them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swam on the surface of the water, and crowded under the bellies of the horses and mules. Several Indians,... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 pągines
...horses' hoofs, on approaching and entering the water, made the fish issue from the mud, and excited them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swam on the surface of the water, and crowded under the belJies of the horses. Several Indians, furnished... | |
| 1824 - 188 pągines
...which they immediately forced to enter the pool. 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, there, fore, resembling large Water Serpents, swim on the surface of the lake, crowd under the bellies... | |
| 1820 - 486 pągines
...which they fbwced to enter the pool. . ^ , • ..^he extraordinary noise caused by the horses1 hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them...of: the water, and crowd under the bellies of ; the ,horscs and mules. A contest between animals of so .different aa .organisation furnishes a very striking... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pągines
...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them...mules. A contest between animals of so different an organisation furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender... | |
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