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
| Elephant - 1856 - 130 pages
...account of his having been attacked, whilst in Surinam, by one of these animals. He remarks, — " Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet; which, while the creature continues fanning with his great wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a... | |
| 1856 - 776 pages
...surgeon judged that he had lost, at least, 12 or 14 ounces. Captain Stedman says, that these animals know by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound sleep, and they generally alight near his feet, and bite a piece out of the great toe, whilst the creature... | |
| Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...feeling it, bnt awoke besmeared and surrounded with clotted blood; and he adds, that these animals, knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, generally alight near tire feet, where the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which... | |
| William Stephens Hayward - 1865 - 402 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... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1869 - 346 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 hites... | |
| John Timbs - 1869 - 374 pages
...birds. Captain Stedman, who states that he was bitten by a Bat, thus describes the operation : — " Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites... | |
| Europe - 1870 - 108 pages
...nothing of it till the mischief has been done. A person who was thus bitten tells us that these Bats, knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings,... | |
| William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 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... | |
| Thomas Rymer Jones - 1873 - 500 pages
...following account of the proceedings of these creatures • " Knowing by instinct that the person whom they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature keeps fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece... | |
| Spectre - 1875 - 346 pages
...flows from the envenomed bite that it can only be stopped with difficulty, and the peril is imminent. Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, when, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites... | |
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