| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 páginas
...bad been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused...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 páginas
...about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool, "•The extraordinary noise caused by fte horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud,...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 páginas
...had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused...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 páginas
...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,... | |
| 1822 - 194 páginas
...of wild Horses and Mules, and they had brought about thirty wiih them, which they immediately forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses hoofs, makes the Fish issue from the Uiiid, and excites them to combat : these yellowish and livid Eels, therefore, resembling large Water... | |
| Charles Hulbert - 1823 - 374 páginas
...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 páginas
...returning from the savannah, with about thirty wild Horses and Mules, which they immediately forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused...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... | |
| Charles Frederick Partington - 1828 - 468 páginas
...had been scouring 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, made the fish issue from the mud, and excited them to combat. The yellow and livid eels, which resembled... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 358 páginas
...about thirty wild horses and 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... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray - 1832 - 436 páginas
...with horses, and soon brought from the savannah about thirty of these animals, 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... | |
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