 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 494 pages
...lately been doubted in England : I was therefore fortunate in being present when one* was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening, near Coquimbo, in Chile, when my servant, noticing that one of the horses was very reslive, went to see what was the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 534 pages
...lately been doubted in England : I was therefore fortunate in being present when one* \vas actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening, near Coquimbo, in Chile, when my servant, noticing that one of the horses was very restive, went to see what was the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 522 pages
...lately been doubted in England : I was therefore fortunate in being present when one* was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening, near Coquimbo, in Chile, when my servant, noticing that one of the horses was very restive, went to see wbat was the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 396 pages
...horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening near Coquimbo, in Chile, when my servant, nolicing that one of the horses was very restive, went to see...put his hand on the beast's withers, and secured the vampire. In the morning the spot where the bite had been inflicted was easily distinguished from being... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 390 pages
...horse's back. We' were bivouacking late one evening wear Coquimbo, in Chile, when my servant, nolicing that one of the horses was very restive, went to see...distinguish something, suddenly put his hand on the beSst's withers, and secured the vampire. In the morning the spot where the bite had been inflicted... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...England ; I was therefore fortunate in being present when one (Desmodus d'orbignyi, Wat.) was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening near Coquimbo, in Chile, when my servant, noticing that one of the horses was very restive, went to see what was the... | |
 | Mammals - 1849 - 440 pages
...on a horse's THE VAMPIBE-BAT. back. We were bivouacking late one evening, near Coquimbo, in Chile, when my servant, noticing that one of the horses was...put his hand on the beast's withers, and secured the vampire. In the morning the spot where the bite had been inflicted was easily distinguished, from being... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1876 - 508 pages
...in England, I was therefore fortunate in being present, when one (Desmodus d'Orbignyi) was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening near Coquimbo in Chile, when my servant, noticing that one of the horses was very restive, went to see what was the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...lately been doubted in England ; I was, therefore, fortunate in being present when one was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking, late...put his hand on the beast's withers, and secured the vampire. In the morning the spot where the bite had been inflicted was easily distinguished by its... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Anatomy, Comparative - 1871 - 524 pages
...has lately been doubted in England. I was therefore fortunate in being present when one was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late...Coquimbo, in Chili, when my servant, noticing that the horses were very restless, went to see what was the matter, and fancying he could distinguish something,... | |
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Chili, when my servant, noticing that one of the horses was very restive, went to see what was the matter, and fancying he could distinguish something, suddenly put his hand on the beast's withers and secured the vampire. 
