 | Antonio de Ulloa, Jorge Juan - Chile - 1758 - 564 pages
...another toilfome afcent, plucks off all the fruit, throwing them on the ground ; a/id to avoid the cpain of defcending the tree, forms himfelf into a ball,...forces him to feek again for food. SERPENTS are here as numerous and deadly as at Carthagena ; and toads innumerable, fvvarming not only in the damp and... | |
 | George Edwards - Natural history - 1760 - 290 pages
...plucks "' off all the fruit, and throws it on the *' ground ; and, to avoid the pain of de" fcending the tree, forms himfelf into " a ball, and drops from...the foot of this tree he continues till " all the fruit is confumed, never ftirring " till hunger forces him to feek for more." Klein, in his Hift. of... | |
 | 1767 - 476 pages
...Afcent, plucks off all the Fruit, throwing them on theGround ; and to avoid the Pain of defcendinej the Tree, forms himfelf into a Ball, and drops from...Branches. At the Foot of this Tree, he continues 'till all theFruits are confumed, never ftirring 'till Hunger forces him to feek again for Food. ODD FESTIVAL... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 342 pages
...afcent, plucks off all the fruit, throwing them on the ground ; and to avoid the pain of dcfcending the tree, forms himfelf into a ball, and drops from...At the foot of this tree he continues till all- the fruit is confumfd, never ftirring till hunger forces him to ieek again for food. Serpents here are... | |
 | Travel - 1796 - 320 pages
...the fruit, throwing them on the ground ; and to avoid the pain of descending the tree, forms himself into a ball, and drops from the branches. At the foot of this tree he continues till all the fruit is consumed, never stirring till hunger forces him 10 seek again for food. Serpents here are... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1796 - 326 pages
...and, in order to lave himfelf fuch another toilfome afcent, plucks off all the fruit, throwing them on the ground ; and to avoid the pain of defcending...At the foot of this tree he continues till all the fruit is confumed, never fiirring till hunger forces him to feek again for 'food. Serpents here are... | |
 | William Granger - Characters and characteristics - 1805 - 648 pages
...climbs ; and, to fave himfelf fuch another toilfome afcent, plucks off all the fruit, throwing them on the ground ; and to avoid the pain of defcending...ftirring till hunger forces him to feek again for food. Ths Original O/PEEPIUG TOM of Coventry. .LJEOFEKIC carl of Mercia, in the year 1040, rebuilt and endowed... | |
 | Antonio de Ulloa - Blacks - 1806 - 530 pages
...the fruit, throwing them on the ground; and to avoid the pain of defcending, forms himfelf H 3 into into a ball, and drops from the branches. At the foot...confumed, never ftirring till hunger forces him to fcek again for food. SERPENTS are here as numerous and deadly .as at Carthagena ; and toads * innumerable,... | |
 | Jorge Juan, Antonio de Ulloa - Peru - 1807 - 532 pages
...the fruit, throwing them on the ground; and to avoid the pain of defcending, forms himfelf FL 3 into into a ball, and drops from the branches. At the foot...of this tree he continues till all the fruits are confuted, never ftirring till hunger forces him to feek again for food. SERPENTS are here as numerous... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1813 - 920 pages
...they would feize the dog and Negro, and leave the European. But the truth I never knew experienced. A. the branches. At the foot of this tree he continues till all the fruits are confumei, never ftirring till hunger forces him to feek again for food. Serpents are here as numerous... | |
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The food of this creature is generally wild fruits ; and when he can find none on the ground, he 'looks out for a tree well loaded, which, with a great deal of pains, he climbs ; and, in order to... 