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Titel

Battle with electric eels

Jahr

1853

Ort

Goldsboro, North Carolina

Nachweis

in: Republican and Patriot 3:11 (13. Juli 1853), [o. S.].

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: III.62
Dateiname: 1819-Baron_Humboldts_Personal_Heft1-31-neu

Statistiken

Seitenanzahl:	1
Spaltenanzahl:	2
Zeichenanzahl:	1966

Weitere Fassungen
	Baron Humboldt’s Last Volume. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent. Vol. 4. London, 1819 (New York City, New York, 1819, Englisch)
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	Humboldt’s Travels (London, 1819, Englisch)
	Electrical eels (Cambridge, 1819, Englisch)
	[Earthquake at Caraccas] (Cambridge, 1819, Englisch)
	Account of the Earthquake which destroyed the Town of Caraccas on the 26th March 1812 (Edinburgh, 1819, Englisch)
	Account of the earthquake that destroyed the town of Caraccas on the twenty-sixth march, 1812 (Liverpool, 1819, Englisch)
	Sur les Gymnotes et autres poissons électriques (Paris, 1819, Französisch)
	An Account of the Earthquake in South America, on the 26th March, 1812 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1820, Englisch)
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	Earthquake in the Caraccas (London, 1820, Englisch)
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	[Earthquake at Caraccas] (Hartford, Connecticut, 1821, Englisch)
	Earthquake at Caraccas (London, 1822, Englisch)
	Earthquake at the Caraccas (Shrewsbury, 1823, Englisch)
	Electrical eel (Hartford, Connecticut, 1826, Englisch)
	Baron Humboldt’s observation on the gymnotus, or electrical eel (London, 1833, Englisch)
	The gymnotus, or electric eel (London, 1834, Englisch)
	Earthquake at Caraccas in 1812 (Hartford, Connecticut, 1835, Englisch)
	Earthquake at Caraccas (London, 1837, Englisch)
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	Female presence of mind (London, 1837, Englisch)
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	An Earthquake (Leipzig; Hamburg; Itzehoe, 1838, Englisch)
	Das Erdbeben von Caraccas (Leipzig, 1843, Deutsch)
	The Gymnotus, or Electrical Eel (Buffalo, New York, 1849, Englisch)
	Anecdote of a Crocodile (Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York, 1853, Englisch)
	Battle with electric eels (Goldsboro, North Carolina, 1853, Englisch)
	Anecdotes of crocodiles (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1853, Englisch)
	Das Erdbeben von Caracas (Leipzig, 1858, Deutsch)

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BATTLE WITH ELECTRIC EELS.

The marshes and standing waters near Cala-bozo and the Orinoco, are filled with electriceels. It is difficult to catch these eels withcommon fishing-nets, as they bury themselvesin the mud. The Indians fish them withhorses and mules, which are driven into thewater. The noise occasioned by the stampingof the horses drives the eels out of the slime,and irritates them; they swim on the surfaceof the water, and press themselves against thebelly of the mules and the horses. A strangecombat now begins; the Indians, providedwith long thin bamboo canes, encircle theditch; some climb the trees, whose branchesextend horizontally over the water. By wildscreams and threats with their long canes,they prevent the horses coming ashore, andescaping. The eels, terrified by the noise, de-fend themselves by the repeated discharge oftheir electric forces. It seems for a time as ifthey would carry off the victory over the hors-es, for many of the latter succumb to the forceof the invisible electric blows, which the eelsgive on the belly, the most sensitive part, andthey sink below the surface overcome by theshocks. If one, escaping from the shocks ofthe electric eel, reaches the land, it falls at ev-ery step, and sinks down on the sand faintand exhausted. In the first five minutes, twohorses were already drowned. The eel, whichis five feet long, presses against the belly ofthe horse, and discharges its electricity alongits whole length, which stuns the abdomen, en-trails, and heart of the horse. The Indiansmaintained that if the horses were driven intothe water of electric eels on two consecutivedays, none would die the second day. Theeels now timidly approached the shore, wherethey were caught with little harpoons attach-ed to long ropes. If the ropes were perfectlydry, no electricity was felt while hauling outthe fish, but it was communicated throughthe wet ropes.—Humboldt. |Spaltenumbruch|

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