| Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pàgines
...formed a basin of muddy water, surrounded by fine trees. To catch the gymnoti with nets was considered very difficult, on account of the extreme agility of the fish, which buried themselves in the mud. The Indians told them that they would fish with horses. They found it... | |
| 1819 - 552 pàgines
...muddy water, surrounded by fine trees, the clusia, the amyris, and the mimosa, with fragrant flowers. To catch the gymnoti with nets is very difficult,...mud like serpents. We would not employ the barbasco, that is to say, the roots of piscidea erithryna, jacquinia armillaris, and some species of phyllanthus,... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pàgines
...muddy water, surrounded by fine trees *, the clusia, the amyris, and the mimosa with fragrant flowers. To catch the gymnoti with nets is very difficult,...mud like serpents. We would not employ the barbasco, that is to say, the roots of the piscidea erithryna, jacquinia armillaris> and some species of phyllanthus,... | |
| 1819 - 304 pàgines
...muddy water, surrounded by fine trees, the clusia, the amyris, and the mimosa, with fragrant flowers. To catch the gymnoti with nets, is very difficult,...agility of the fish, which bury themselves in the sand like serpents. We would not employ the barbasco, that is to say, the roots of the piscidea erithryna,... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pàgines
...the clusia, the amyris, and the mimosa, with fragrant flowers. To catch the gymnoti with nets is verv difficult, on account of the extreme agility of the...bury themselves in the mud like serpents. We would net employ the barboteo, that is to say, the roots of the piscidea erithryne, jacquinia armillaris,... | |
| 1820 - 468 pàgines
...to a stream, which, in the time of drought, forms a basin of muddy water, surrounded by fine trees. To catch the gymnoti with nets is very difficult,...in the mud like serpents. We would not employ the barb&scp, that is to say, the roots of the Piscidea erithryna and Jacquinia armillaris, which, when... | |
| 1820 - 442 pàgines
...to a stream, which, in the time of drought, forms a basin of muddy water, surrounded by fine tree*. To catch the gymnoti with nets is very difficult, on account of the extreme agiKty of tile fish, which bury themselves in the mud like serpents. We would not employ the barbasco>... | |
| William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 290 pàgines
...water, surrounded by fine trees bearing fragrant flowers. To catch the gymnoti, or electrical eels, with nets, is very difficult, on account of the extreme agility of the fish, and their burying themselves in the mud. We did not choose to employ the barbasco, that is a mixture... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 pàgines
...muddy water, surrounded by fine trees *, the clusia, the amyris, and the mimosa with fragrant flowers. To catch the gymnoti with nets is very difficult,...account of the extreme agility of the fish, which bury themselzes in the mud like serpents. We would not employ the barbasco, that is to say, the roots of... | |
| 1820 - 486 pàgines
...the 'time .of drought, forms a basin of muddy water, surrounded by fine;toees. To catch the gjmnoti with nets is very difficult, on account of the extreme...mud like serpents. We would not employ the barbasco, that is to say, the roots of the Fiscidea erithryna and Jacquinia nnmlluris, which, when. thrown- into... | |
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