 Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, 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...  Travels in South America - Page 1771822 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 pages
...manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavour to give a distinct account of it. Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 382 pages
...judged that he had lost at least twelve or fourteen ounces. Captain Stedman says that these animals, knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keep the person cool, he... | |
 | 1829 - 446 pages
...manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavour to give a distinct account of it. " Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 1178 pages
...judged that he hid lost at least twelve or fourteen ounces. Captain Stedman says, that these animals, knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet; where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps the person cool, he... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavour to give a distinct account of it. " Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites... | |
 | 1834 - 700 pages
...judged that he had lost at least twelve or fourteen ounces. Captain Stedman says, that these animals, knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet ; where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps the person cool,... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 pages
...stopped.' Captain Stedrnan, who states that he was bitten, thus describes the operation : ' Knowing hy instinct that the person they intend to attack is...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites... | |
 | 1837
...l>e not stopped.' Captain Stedman, who states that he was bitten, thus describes the operation : ' Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally aliuht near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 pages
...blood do not stopped.' Captain Stedman, who states that he was bitten, thus describes the operation : ' Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally Blight near the fact, where, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings, which keep*... | |
 | 1852 - 670 pages
...manner in which they proceed is truly won-derful, I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. t :@. 4 Q@ Z e y cB BT* E @{д N W N EG } Ґoom=} 3f slumtjer, they gen-erally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his... | |
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