 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...115 prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. The travellers had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They required a long rest, and abundant nourishment,... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. ' We had little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...engaged; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment,... | |
 | 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 - 592 pages
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. ' We had little doubt lhat the fishing would terminate by killing successively...engaged; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pages
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. We had little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest*, and abundant nourishment^,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. We had little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest*, and abundant nourishment,... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses arid the eels. ' We had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...engaged; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment,... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pages
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. We had little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...; but by, degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest *, and abundant nourishment,... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. " We had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished^ and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment,... | |
 | 1820 - 468 pages
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. We had little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged ; but byt degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They... | |
 | 1822 - 194 pages
...long strug gle between the other horses and the Eels. There was litlle doubt that this cruel mode of fishing woul'd terminate, by killing successively...; but by degrees, the impetuosity of this .unequal combat diminished, and the wearied eels dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment... | |
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They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. We had little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity... 
