 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...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 noise, defended themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries. For a long interval they... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away and reaching the bank of the pool. The...a long time they seem to prove victorious. Several borses sink beneath the violence of the invisible strokes, which they receive from all sides in organs... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away, and reaching the bank of the pooL The...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... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pages
...surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away, and reaching the bank of the pool. The...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... | |
 | 1822 - 194 pages
...surface of the water. By their wild cries and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away, and reaching the bank of the pool. The...the repeated discharge of their Electric Batteries, and during a long time, seem to prove victorious. Several horses sink beneath the violence of the shocks,... | |
 | 1824 - 188 pages
...surface of (he-water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away, and reaching the bank 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 pages
...surface of the water. By tbeir wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away, and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by tiie noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electrical batteries. During a long... | |
 | 1820 - 486 pages
...of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away, and reaching the bank of the pool. .Tile eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the...seem to prove victorious. Several horses sink beneath tho violence of the invisible strokes, which they receive from all sides in organs the most essential... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...surface of the water. 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...repeated discharge of their electric batteries. During a lone; time they seem to prove victorious. Several horses sink beneath the violence of the invisible... | |
 | 1832 - 670 pages
...surface of the water. By their wild cries and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away and reaching the bank of the pool. The...eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repented discharge of their electric batteries!. During a long time they seem to prove victorious.... | |
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Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent... 
