 | Thomas Boosey - Fishing - 1835 - 328 pages
...time the victory seems doubtful, or to incline to the fishes. The mules, J84 FISHING AS PRACTISED IN disabled by the frequency and force of the shocks,...electric organs are under the tail. Rev. W.Kirby. Ich thyophagites — Na five Fishers. — Sir George Mackenzie, in his journey from Canada to the Pacific,... | |
 | William Kirby - Animal behavior - 1835 - 578 pages
...end, and terror and agony in their eyes, endeavouring to escape the tempest that has overtaken them ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great...pursuit of their enemy. In a few minutes two horses were already drowned : the eel, more than five feet long, gliding under the belly of the horse or mule,... | |
 | Medicine - 1836 - 686 pages
...end, and terror and agony in their eyes, endeavouring to escape the tempest that has overtaken them ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great...the surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy." 403. In a few minutes two horses were drowned. One of the electric eels (more than five feet long)... | |
 | Natural theology - 1837 - 680 pages
...end, am. terror and agony in their eyes, endeavouring to escape the tempest that has overtaken them; the eels, yellowish and livid. looking like great aquatic serpents, swimming on the surfaee of the water in pursuit of their enemy. In a few minutes two horses were already drowned :... | |
 | Medicine - 1836 - 634 pages
...end, and terror and agony in their eyes, endeavouring to escape the tempest that has overtaken them ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great...the surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy." 403. In a few minutes two horses were drowned. One of the electric eels (more than five feet long)... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1857 - 1022 pages
...; the horses, with their hair on end, endeavouring to escape the tempest that has overtaken them ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great...surface of the water in pursuit of their enemy. In a few moments, two horses were already drowned : the eel, more than five feet long, gliding under the belly... | |
 | Edward Pett Thompson - Animal behavior - 1851 - 434 pages
...; the horses, with their hair on end, endeavouring to escape the tempest that has overtaken them ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great...pursuit of their enemy. In a few minutes two horses were already drowned; the eel, more than five feet long, gliding under the belly of the horse or mule, made... | |
 | 1852 - 820 pages
...basin; the horses, with their hair on end, endeavoring to escape the tempest that has overtaken them; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great...of their enemy. In a few minutes, two horses were already drowned: the eel. more than five feet long, gliding under the bully of the horse or mule, made... | |
 | 1854 - 402 pages
...— the horses, with their hair on end, endeavoring to escape the tempest that has overtaken them ; the eels, yellowish and livid, looking like great...of their enemy. In a few minutes, two horses were already drowned ; the eel, more than five feet long, gliding under the belly of the horse or mule,... | |
 | Louis Figuier - Marine animals - 1868 - 682 pages
...and grief in their eyes, trying to escape from the storm which had surprised them; the eels, yellow and livid, looking like great aquatic serpents swimming on the surface of the water, and chasing their enemies, were objects at once appalling and picturesque. In less than five minutes... | |
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Indians, gain the banks, and, overcome by fatigue, and benumbed by the shocks, stretch themselves at their length on the ground. There could not, says Humboldt, be a finer subject for the painter : groups of Indians surrounding the bason; the horses with... 
