 We had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged; but, by degrees, the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed.  Travels in South America - Page 421822 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 482 pages
...prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. The travellers had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They required a long rest, and abundant nourishment, to repair the galvanic force... | |
 | 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
...rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. ' We had little doubt lhat the fishing would terminate by killing successively all...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost... | |
 | 1819
...amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses arid the eels. ' We had little doubt that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost... | |
 | 1819
...amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. ' We had little doubt, that the fishing would terminate by killing successively all...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819
...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...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest*, and abundant nourishment^, to repair what they have lost... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819
...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...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest*, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost... | |
 | 1820
...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...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest *, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost... | |
 | 1820
...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...of this unequal combat diminished^ and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1825
...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...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest*, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost... | |
 | 1820
...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...of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest *, and abundant nourishment, to repair what they have lost... | |
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