 | 1859 - 148 str.
...fishing this could be, but we soon saw our guides return from the Savannah, or immense flat grassy waste, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules...."The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, made the fish leave the mud, and excited them to combat. These yellowish eels, resembling large aquatic... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 str.
...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...with them, which they forced to enter the pool. The noise caused by the horses' hoofs, made the fish issue from the mud, and excited them to the attack.... | |
 | 1860 - 874 str.
...injury ; and, after resorting to different expedients, 'the Indians told us they would fish with horses. We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...fishing ; but we soon saw our guides return from the savanna, which they had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They brought about thirty with them,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 774 str.
...Indians, therefore, told us, that they would " fish with horses." We found it difficult to form an idea ol this extraordinary manner of fishing; but we soon...return from the savannah, which they had been scouring fur wild horses and mules. They brought about Unity with them, which they forced to enter the pool.... | |
 | William Jardine - 1861 - 370 str.
...; and, after resorting to different expedients, " the Indians told us they would fish with horses. We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...had been scouring for wild horses and mules. They ï brought about, thirty with them, which they forced to enter the pool. " The extraordinary noise... | |
 | Ramón Páez - 1862 - 550 str.
...the savannas a drove of wild horses, which they forced into a pool of water abounding in gymnoti. " The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...makes the fish issue from the mud and excites them to attack. The yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the... | |
 | George Hanneman Bennett - 1866 - 366 str.
...gymnoti. The Indians therefore, told ,us that they would "fish with horses," (embarbascar on caballos.)* We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish isiue from the mud, and excites them to the attack. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large... | |
 | Ramón Páez - 1868 - 562 str.
...the savannas a drove of wild horses, which they forced into a pool. of water abounding in gymnoti. "The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs...makes the fish issue from the mud and excites them to attack. The yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1871 - 544 str.
...gymnoti. The Indians therefore told us that they would "fish with horses," (embarbascar con caballos.t) We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites«them to the attack. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large * Amyris lateriflora,... | |
 | 1872 - 504 str.
...would have enfeebled the Gymnoti : the Indians therefore told us, that they would ' fish with horses." We found it difficult to form an idea of this extraordinary...fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat ; they swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest... | |
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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... 
