| 1832 - Broj stranica: 670
...with horses. Having caught about thirty wild horses and mules, they forced them to enter the pool. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs,...horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization, furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray - 1832 - Broj stranica: 436
...which they drove into the pool. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses* hoofs makes the fishes issue from the mud,, and excites them to combat. These...yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic snakes, swim at the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. The... | |
| 1833 - Broj stranica: 646
...result from Humboldt himself: ' " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fishes issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These...yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic snakes, swim at the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. The... | |
| John Lauris Blake - 1834 - Broj stranica: 1028
...about thirty wild horses aud mules, they drove them into the pool in which were the electrical eels. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling larger aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses... | |
| 1834 - Broj stranica: 536
...and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. THE. GYMNOTl'8. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs,...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat ; they swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest... | |
| 1838 - Broj stranica: 534
...had collected. The novel and singular scene which ensued is thus described by tlint traveller: — "The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization, furnishes a striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoonsandlongslender... | |
| James Renwick - 1840 - Broj stranica: 412
...has furnished us with the following graphic description of the Indian mode of fishing for gy mnoti, by means of horses : " The extraordinary noise caused...horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Iiraians, provided with harpoons... | |
| Saturday magazine - 1840 - Broj stranica: 1078
...for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs,...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat; they swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and moles. A contest... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1840 - Broj stranica: 294
...thirty horses and mules, which they forthwith drove into the pool. A singular scene then ensued. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs,...makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them io combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling COMBAT BETWEEN THE EELS AND HORSES. 117 large... | |
| Tracts for the people - 1847 - Broj stranica: 800
...from the mod, and excites them to combat These yel lowish and livid eels, resembling large acquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the hores and mules. A contest between animals of so dif ferent an organization furnishes a very striking... | |
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