 | Samuel Hull Wilcocke - 1807 - 600 pàgines
...feet across the wings, when extended, but the general Size seems to be twelve or thirteen feet. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow, and two condors are capable of devouring that animal. The Indians say they will carry off a deer, a young... | |
 | 1813 - 594 pàgines
...feathered kind, but beasts, and even to man himself. It is eighteen feet across, the wings extended. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; .•uni IAO of them are able to devour it. They do not even abstain from man himself;' but, fortunately,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pàgines
...Acosta, Garcilasso, and Des Marchais, assert, that it is eighteen feet across, the wings extended. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; and two of them are able to devour it. They do not even abstain from man himself; 'but fortunately there... | |
 | Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 pàgines
...pursuit. The celebrated CONDOR OF THE CORDILLERAS has been compared both to the eagle and the vulture. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; and the Indians say they will carry off a deer, a young calf, or a sheep. They seldom frequent the forests,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1827 - 472 pàgines
...to describe its manners, form, weight, expansion and power; we will therefore leave to momenclators to decide upon its class. If size, for it is by much...but fortunately there are but few of the species. The Indians say that they will carry off a deer, or a young calf in their talons, as an eagle would... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 612 pàgines
...Acosta, Garcilasso, and Desmarchais, assert, that it is eighteen feet across, the wings extended. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; and two of them are able to devour it. They do not even abstain xm man himself: but fortunately there are... | |
 | William Adams (M.A.) - 1832 - 516 pàgines
...pursuit. The celebrated condor of the Cordilleras has been compared both to the eagle and the vulture. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; and the Indians say they will carry off a deer, a young calf, or a sheep. They seldom frequent the forests,... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pàgines
...across the wings when extended, but it is doubtful whether it ever acquires nearly that magnitude. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow: and two of them are able to devour it. The Indians assert, that they will carry off a deer or a young calf... | |
 | William Adams - 1836 - 508 pàgines
...pursuit. The celebrated condor of the Cordilleras has been compared both to the eagle and the vulture. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; and the Indians say they will carry off a deer, a young calf, or a sheep. They seldom frequent the forests,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pàgines
...Acosta, Garcilasso, and Desmarchais, assert, that it is eighteen feet across, the wings extended. The beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; and two of them are able to devour it. They do not even abstain from man himself: but fortunately there... | |
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Desmarchais assert that it measures eighteen feet across the wings when expanded ; its beak is so strong as to pierce the body of a cow ; and it is positively asserted that two of them are capable of devouring that animal. They do not even abstain from... 
