 The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the 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...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 2411820Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...gymnoti; the Indians, therefore, told us, that they would " fish with horses," embarhascar con cavailos. We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...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... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savauuah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules....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... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...extraordinary manner of fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savannah, which they bad been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought...mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, gwim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...this extraordinary manner of fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savannah, whic{i they had been scouring for wild horses and mules....enter the pool, "•The extraordinary noise caused by fte horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud, and" excites them to combat. These yellowish... | |
 | 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
...and mules which they had collected. The novel and singular scene which ensued is thus described. ' The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...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... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...and mules which they had collected. The novel and singular scene which ensued is thus described. ' The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...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... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 pages
...mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinaiy noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue...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... | |
 | 1820 - 468 pages
...is to say, the roots of the Piscidea erithryna and Jacquinia armillaris, which, when thrown into the pool, intoxicate or benumb these animals. These means...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... | |
 | 1822 - 194 pages
...search of wild Horses and Mules, and they had brought about thirty wiih them, which they immediately forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise...by the horses hoofs, makes the Fish issue from the Uiiid, and excites them to combat : these yellowish and livid Eels, therefore, resembling large Water... | |
 | 1824 - 188 pages
...guides returning from the savannah, with about thirty wild Horses and Mules, which they immediately forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise...mud, and excites them to combat; these yellowish and livid Eels, there, fore, resembling large Water Serpents, swim on the surface of the lake, crowd under... | |
| |
