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" The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud and excites them to the attack. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water and crowd under the bellies of the... "
A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles ... - Page 107
by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831
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The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...on the surface of the water, and crowded under the bellies of the 114 BATTLE WITH ELECTRICAL EELS. horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization presented a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surrounded...
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Weaver's Magazine and Literary Companion, Volume 2

1819 - 304 pages
...to combat. These yellowish and livid eel*, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the stttfecfc of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses...and long slender . reeds, surround the pool closely ; an«i some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 3

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpooas and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 2

1820 - 442 pages
...fish issue from the 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 bellies of the horses artd mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization furnishes a very striking spectacle....
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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature ..., Volume 2, Part 3

1825 - 448 pages
...to action. "These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents," says M. Humboldt, " swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under...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,...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, Volume 2

1820 - 486 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of: the water, and crowd under the bellies of ; the ,horscs and mules. A contest between animals of so .different aa .organisation furnishes a very striking...
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A Manual of Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Being the ..., Volume 2

Charles Frederick Partington - 1828 - 468 pages
...This singular contest between animals so different in their organization, appears to have furnished a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surrounded the pool closely, while others climbed the trees which hung over its banks, and by their...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 10

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...mules. A contest between animals of so different an organisation furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender...
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The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and ..., Volume 8

Josiah Conder - 1830 - 360 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...mules. A contest between animals of so different an organisation, furnishes a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long, slender...
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The Christian's Penny Magazine, Issues 1-82

1832 - 670 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely j and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the...
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