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" 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 177
1822 - 180 pages
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The Elephant's Feast: Or, the Use of Birds and Beasts to Man

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...
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The Church-warder and domestic magazine, Volumes 10-11

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...
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The Baptist youth's magazine, with which the Baptist children's magazine is ...

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...
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The Cloud King, Or, Up in the Air, and Down in the Sea: Being a History Fo ...

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...
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Popular natural history and characteristics of animals

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...
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Eccentricities of the Animal Creation

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...
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Animal life in Europe, Volume 72

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,...
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Natural History: Exhibiting in a Series of Delightful Anecdotes and ...

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...
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Mammalia: A Popular Introduction to Natural History

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...
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Ye Vampyres!: A Legend of the National Betting-ring, Showing what Became of it

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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