 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...horses. They found it difficult to form an idea of this manner of fishing ; but they soon saw their guides return from the savannah, which they had been...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The noise caused by the horses' hoofs, made the fish issue from the mud, and excited them to the attack.... | |
 | 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...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. ' The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...; the Indians therefore told u>. that they would " fish with horses," embarbascar con cat-olio* *. We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...saw our guides return from the savannah, which they bad been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...gymnoti ; the Indian* therefore told us, that they would " fish with horses," embarbaicar con canalla». We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savauuah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them,... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...that they would "fish with horses," embarbascar con cavallos. We found it dificult to- form an idetuof 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. They brought about thirty with them, which... | |
 | 1820 - 468 pages
...would have enfeebled the gymnoti ; the Indians therefore told us, that they would " fish with horses.'" We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pages
...would have enfeebled the gymnoti ; the Indians therefore told us, that they would " fish with horses," We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 290 pages
...idea of such an extraordinary mode of fishing, but we soon saw our guides return from the savanna, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought with them about thirty, whom they forced to enter the water. The noise made by the dashing of the horses'... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 pages
...roots of the piscidea erithyrna, jacquinia armillaris, and some species of phyllanthus, which, thrown into the pool, intoxicate or benumb these animals....with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them... | |
 | 1820 - 486 pages
...would have enfeebled the gymnoti ; the Indians therefore told us, that they would " fish with horses." We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they fbwced to enter the pool. . ^ , • ..^he extraordinary noise caused by the horses1 hoofs makes the... | |
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We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing; but we soon saw our guides return from the savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter... 
