 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 490
...stones flung from slings, or by the Solas. A curious method of capturing the condor alive is practiced in the province of Abancay. A fresh cow-hide, with...young children having been attacked by condors. That these birds are sometimes extremely fierce is very certain. The following occurrence came within my... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 492
...method of capturing ihe condor alive is practiced in the province of Abancay. A fresh cow-hide, wiih some fragments of flesh adhering to it, is spread...young children having been attacked by condors. That these birds are sometimes extremely fierce is very certain. The following occurrence came within my... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 508
...usually catch him by traps or by the lasso, or kill him by stones flung from slings, or by the Solas. A curious method of capturing the condor alive is...young children having been attacked by condors. That these birds are sometimes extremely fierce is very certain. The following occurrence came within my... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 490
...method of capturing the condor alive is practiced in ihe province of Abancay. A fresh cow-hide, wiih some fragments of flesh adhering to it, is spread...young children having been attacked by condors. That these birds are sometimes extremely fierce is very certain. The following occurrence came within my... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 538
...darts down upon the cow-hide, and then the Indian, who is Scientific Intelligence — Zoology. 389 concealed under it, seizes the bird by the legs, and...fast in the skin, as if in a bag, The captured condor Haps his wings, and makes ineffectual attempts to fly ; but he is speedily secured, and carried in... | |
 | Scientific and technical reader - 1869 - Liczba stron: 408
...the bolas — balls of stone or iron attached to a thong and thrown with great force and precision. A curious method of capturing the condor alive is...the skin, as if in a bag. The captured condor flaps its wings, and makes ineffectual attempts to fly, but is speedily secured, and carried in triumph to... | |
 | 1875 - Liczba stron: 232
...is spread out on one of the level heights, and an Indian, provided with ropes, creeps beneath it ; some others station themselves in ambush near the...young children having been attacked by condors. That the birds are sometimes extremely fierce is very certain. The following occurrence came within my own... | |
 | Edward Austin Sheldon - 1875 - Liczba stron: 444
...spread out on one of the level heights, and an Indian, provided with ropes, creeps beneath it, while some others station themselves in ambush near the...the skin, as if in a bag. The captured condor flaps its wings, and makes ineffectual attempts to fly, but is speedily secured, and carried in triumph to... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1879 - Liczba stron: 448
...or by the bolas.e '• A. curious method of capturing the condor alive is practised in one province. A fresh cow-hide, with some fragments of flesh adhering...the skin, as if in a bag. The captured condor flaps its wings, and makes ineffectual attempts to fly, but is speedily secured, and carried in triumph to... | |
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A curious method of capturing the condor alive is practised in the province of Abancay. A fresh cow-hide, with some fragments of flesh adhering to it, is spread out on one of the level heights, and an Indian provided with ropes creeps beneath it, whilst... 