 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 страници
...shore, stumbling at every step, and stretched themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and with limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. In less than five minutes two of the horses were drowned. The eels being five feet long, and pressing themselves against the belly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 страници
...pool. The eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries. During a long time they seem to prove victorious....long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes T 2 a discharge a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 страници
...discharge of their electric * Properly to let to ileep, or intusicate the fish by means of horsei. 348 batteries. During a long time they seem to prove victorious....long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of it's electric organ. It attacks at once the heart,... | |
 | 1819 - 596 страници
...discharge of their electric batteries. During a long time they seem to prove victorious. Several borses sink beneath the violence of the invisible strokes,...long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes Y 2 a discharge a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 страници
...regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch themselves on the sand, exhausted with fatigue,1 and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of...long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of it's electric organ. It attacks at once the heart,... | |
 | 1819 - 552 страници
...the sand, exhausted with fatigue, and, their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoii. ' In less than five minutes two horses were drowned....long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart,... | |
 | 1819 - 304 страници
...exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumb* td by the electric shocks of the pymnoti. •] ' -.r -. " In less than five minutes two horses were drowned....long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart,... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 страници
...exhausted with fatigue, and their limbs benumbed by the electric shocks of the gymnoti. In less than fire minutes two horses were drowned. The eel, being five...long, and pressing itself against the belly of the bones, makes a discharge along the whole extent of it's electric organ. It attacks at ' °nce the heart,... | |
 | 1820 - 468 страници
...pool. The eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries. During a long time they seem to prove victorious....long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its elec" trie organ. It attacks at once the heart,... | |
 | 1820 - 870 страници
...themselves, and endeavour to flee from the storm by which they are overtaken. They are driven back by tha Indians into the middle of the water ! but a small...long, and pressing itself against the belly of the horses, makes a discharge along the whole extent of its electric organ. It attacks at once the heart,... | |
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Others, panting, with mane erect, and haggard eyes, expressing anguish, raise themselves, and endeavour to flee from the storm by which they are overtaken. They are driven back by the Indians into the middle of the water; but a small number succeed in... 
