 We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary manner of fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the Savannah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 2311820Full view - About this book
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Naturalists - 1809 - 518 pages
...horses. They found it difficult to form an idea of this manner of fishing ; but they soon saw their guides return from the savannah, which they had been...mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The noise caused by the horses' hoofs, made the fish issue from the mud,... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...gymnoti; the Indians, therefore, told us, that they would " fish with horses," embarhascar con cavailos. We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. ' The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1819 - 590 pages
...gymnoti ; the Indians therefore told us, that they would " fish with horses," embarbascar con cavallos *. We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinaiy noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1819 - 602 pages
...; the Indians therefore told u>. that they would " fish with horses," embarbascar con cat-olio* *. We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...saw our guides return from the savannah, which they bad been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...gymnoti ; the Indian* therefore told us, that they would " fish with horses," embarbaicar con canalla». We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savauuah, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them,... | |
 | 1819 - 304 pages
...that they would "fish with horses," embarbascar con cavallos. We found it dificult to- form an idetuof this extraordinary manner of fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savannah, whic{i they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them, which... | |
 | Science - 1820 - 442 pages
...to s*y, the foot* of the Piscidea eritbryna and Jacquinia armillaris, which, when thrown into tire pool, intoxicate or benumb these animals. These means...mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English prose literature - 1822 - 290 pages
...idea of such an extraordinary mode of fishing, but we soon saw our guides return from the savanna, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought with them about thirty, whom they forced to enter the water. The noise made by the dashing of the horses'... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - Natural history - 1825 - 602 pages
...gymnoti; the Indians therefore told us, that they would " fish with horses," embarbascar con cavallos *. We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs makes the fish issue... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Science - 1828 - 468 pages
...them : the Indians therefore said they would fish with horses, and the guides were soon seen returning from the savannah, which they had been scouring for...mules. They brought about thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, made the fish issue... | |
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