 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 pages
...INDIAN GIBL IN TBE LLANOS. 115 prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. The travellers had little doubt that the fishing would terminate...diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They required a long rest, and abundant nourishment, to repair the galvanic force which they lost. The mules... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...extremities. He horses are probably not killed, but *°ly ttunned. They are drowned, from the Hnpossiuility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the...and the eels. We had little doubt, that the fishing *ould ^terminate by killing successively au llc animals engaged ; but by degrees the 'epetuosHy of... | |
 | 1820 - 468 pages
...extremities. The horses are probably not killed, but only etunncd. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the...killing successively all the animals engaged ; but byt degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They... | |
 | William Bingley - 1820 - 368 pages
...shock thus received, these horses were stunned ; and, no doubt, were drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. At length the eels became exhausted, and timidly approached the edge of the pool, where several of... | |
 | 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...of this .unequal combat diminished, and the wearied eels dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment to repair what they have lost of... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 290 pages
...fishing would end in the successive destruction of all the animals engaged. By degrees, however, the heat of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied...They require a long rest and abundant nourishment to recover their loss of galvanic power. The mules and horses began to lose their excessive terror. The... | |
 | 1825 - 448 pages
...extremities. The horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossihility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the...terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged; No. 17. N. s. N IHII by degrees the impetuosity of the unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gyinnoti... | |
 | 1820 - 486 pages
...extremities. The horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eela. We had little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the animals... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1828 - 468 pages
...humane conductors of this exhibition had succeeded in drowning two horses, and M. Humboldt imagined that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. On the fish approaching the edge of the marsh, they were readily taken by means of a small harpoon,... | |
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... of the abdominal nerves. It is natural that the effect felt by the horses should be more powerful than that produced upon man by the touch of the same fish at only one of his extremities. The horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They... 
