 | Amasa Delano - 1817 - 622 pàgines
...the deck to it ; and they vo'tld eat in their way as well as any domestic animal. I have known th-.m live several months without food ; but they always...island of Massa Fuero ; and there landed more than one half of them, after having them sixty days on board my Ship. Half of the number landed, died as... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1832 - 864 pàgines
...entice them to come from all parts of the deck to it; and they would eat in their way, as well as any domestic animal. I have known them live several months...grow lighter, and their fat diminishes, as common sen« teachfS, notwithstanding some writers have asserted to the contrary. Their flesh, without exception,... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1839 - 828 pàgines
...entice them to come from all parts of the deck to it ; and they would eat in their way, as well as any domestic animal. I have known them live several months...notwithstanding some writers have asserted to the contrary. Their flesh, without exception, is of as sweet and pleasant a flavour as any that I ever eat. It was... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1839 - 834 pàgines
...entice them to come from all parts of the deck to it; and they would eat in their way, as well as any domestic animal. I have known them live several months...grow lighter, and their fat diminishes, as common sen»e teaches, notwithstanding some wriU-гз have asserU'd lo the contrary. Their flesh, without... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1839 - 834 pàgines
...entice them to cnme from all parts of the deck to it ; and they would rat in their way, as well as any domestic animal. I have known them live several months...that case, grow lighter, and their fat diminishes, aa common sense teschcs, notwith* standing some writers have asserted to the contrary. Their flesh,... | |
 | 1889 - 116 pàgines
...entice them to come from all parts of the deck to it ; and they would eat in their way as well as any domestic animal. I have known them live several months...teaches, notwithstanding some writers have asserted the contrary. If food will fatten animals, to go without it will make them lean. " I carried at one... | |
 | William Healey Dall - 1913 - 660 pàgines
...the deck to it ; and they would eat in their way as well as any domestic animal. I have known them to live several months without food; but they always...teaches, notwithstanding some writers have asserted the contrary. If food will fatten animals, to go without it will make them lean. "I carried at one... | |
 | 1926 - 1230 pàgines
...the deck to it ; and they would eat in their way as well as any domestic animal. I have known them to live several months without food ; but they always...teaches, notwithstanding some writers have asserted the contrary. If food will fatten animals, to go without it will make them lean. "I carried at one... | |
 | California Academy of Sciences - 1926 - 686 pàgines
...the deck to it ; and they would eat in their way as well as any domestic animal. I have known them to live several months without food; but they always...teaches, notwithstanding some writers have asserted the contrary. If food will fatten animals, to go without it will make them lean. "I carried at one... | |
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... taste, and full of juice. Sometimes I procured grass for them. Either of these being strewed on the quarter-deck, the pear-tree being cut fine, would immediately entice them to come from all parts of the deck to it ; and they would eat in their way... 