 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 páginas
...slender reeds, surrounded the pool closely, and some climbed up the trees, the branches of which extended horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevented the horses from running away and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by the... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 páginas
...spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend...themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric * Properly to let to ileep, or intusicate the fish by means of horsei. 348 batteries. During a long... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 páginas
...spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend...themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric * Properly to tet to ticrp, or , . cote the fisb by means of horses. batteries. During a long time... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 622 páginas
...spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend...length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from ruuning away and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, sUmned by the noise, defend themselves by... | |
 | 1820 - 442 páginas
...spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender feeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend...prevent the horses from running- away, and reaching the batik of the pool. The eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their... | |
 | 1824 - 188 páginas
...some climb upoo the trees, the branch, es of which extend horizontally over the surface of (he-water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds,...of the pool. The Eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselvet by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries, and, during a long time, seem to... | |
 | 1825 - 448 páginas
...Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely; and some climb upon (he trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By tbeir wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away, and reaching... | |
 | 1820 - 486 páginas
...upon the trees, the branches -of.which extend horizontally over the surface of the j^a^er., By tb«ir wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent...from running away, and reaching the bank of the pool. .Tile eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 páginas
...spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend...By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, thry prevent the horses from running away, and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 376 páginas
...spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend...and reaching the bank of the pool. The Eels, stunned hy the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries. During a long... | |
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A contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally... 
