 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...on the surface of the water, and crowded under the bellies of the 114 BATTLE WITH ELECTRICAL EELS. horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization presented a very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surrounded... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild .cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1819 - 590 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1819 - 602 pages
...and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, gwim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies...the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...to combat. These yellowish and livid eel*, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the stttfecfc of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses...and long slender . reeds, surround the pool closely ; an«i some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...very striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with harpooas and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches... | |
 | Science - 1820 - 468 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim >on the surface of the water,...the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from... | |
 | 1820 - 870 pages
...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water,...the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from... | |
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The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the... 
