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" It is natural that the effect felt by the horses should be more powerful than that produced upon man by the touch of the same fish at only one of his extremities. The horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossibility... "
Humboldt's travels and discoveries in South America - Page 116
by Alexander von Humboldt - 1840 - 278 lehte
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The Life, Travels and Books of Alexander Von Humboldt

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 lehte
...INDIAN GIBL IN TBE LLANOS. 115 prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. The travellers had little doubt that the fishing would terminate...diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They required a long rest, and abundant nourishment, to repair the galvanic force which they lost. The mules...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, 3. köide

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 lehte
...horses are probably not killed, but *°ly ttunned. They are drowned, from the Hnpossiuility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses...and the eels. We had little doubt, that the fishing *ould ^terminate by killing successively au llc animals engaged ; but by degrees the 'epetuosHy of...
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The Quarterly Review, 21. köide

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 lehte
...horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses and the eels. ' We had little doubt lhat the fishing would terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged; but by degrees the...
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The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, 2. köide

1820 - 468 lehte
...horses are probably not killed, but only etunncd. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses...killing successively all the animals engaged ; but byt degrees the impetuosity of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. They...
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Travels in South America

1822 - 194 lehte
...long strug gle between the other horses and the Eels. There was litlle doubt that this cruel mode of fishing woul'd terminate, by killing successively...of this .unequal combat diminished, and the wearied eels dispersed. They require a long rest, and abundant nourishment to repair what they have lost of...
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The English reading book, in prose

William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 290 lehte
...fishing would end in the successive destruction of all the animals engaged. By degrees, however, the heat of this unequal combat diminished, and the wearied...They require a long rest and abundant nourishment to recover their loss of galvanic power. The mules and horses began to lose their excessive terror. The...
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The Pocket magazine of classic and polite literature ..., 2. köide,3. osa

1825 - 448 lehte
...horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossihility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses...terminate by killing successively all the animals engaged; No. 17. N. s. N IHII by degrees the impetuosity of the unequal combat diminished, and the wearied gyinnoti...
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A Manual of Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Being the ..., 2. köide

Charles Frederick Partington - 1828 - 468 lehte
...humane conductors of this exhibition had succeeded in drowning two horses, and M. Humboldt imagined that the fishing would terminate by killing successively...combat diminished, and the wearied gymnoti dispersed. On the fish approaching the edge of the marsh, they were readily taken by means of a small harpoon,...
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A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes ..., 4. köide

Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 376 lehte
...horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses...engaged ; but by degrees the impetuosity of this unequal contest diminished, and the wearied Gymnoti dispersed. They require a long rest,* and abundant nourishment,...
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The Christian's Penny Magazine, 1–82. number

1832 - 670 lehte
...horses are probably not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned from the impossibility of rising amid the prolonged struggle between the other horses...eels. " We had little doubt that the fishing would termi. nate by killing successively all the animals engaged ; but, by degrees, the impetuosity of this...
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