 ... enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues...  Travels in South America - Page 1771822 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 524 pages
...where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed, that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed, that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he... | |
 | John Gabriel Stedman - 1806 - 518 pages
...creature fM creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, CHAP. XXII. which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful; yet through this orifice he... | |
 | John Gabriel Stedman - 1813 - 528 pages
...Ttnl. creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, CHAP. XXI I . which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of. the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful ; . yet through this orifice... | |
 | John Gabriel Stedman - 1813 - 516 pages
...his enormous wings, CHAP. XXI I. which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of v^^-v-*^ the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful;. yet through this orifice he... | |
 | John Adams - 1816 - 352 pages
...where- white the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is conse(paentry irofpainfu'l; yet tli rough this orifice... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 514 pages
...where while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he... | |
 | William Bingley - 1820 - 368 pages
...near the feet. Here they commence their operation by a fanning motion with tlieir wings : they then bite a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so small that the head of a pin can scarcely be inserted into the wound. Through this orifice they suck... | |
 | 1821 - 488 pages
...where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed, that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he... | |
 | 1821 - 992 pages
...and while the creature ' continues Tanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that ' the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is, consequently, not painful ; yet, through this orifice... | |
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