 At times, when excited by the morning coolness and by the prospect of a good haul, they indulge in a manner of merriment which resembles the gambols of sportive water-fowls : standing upright and balancing themselves in their hollow logs, which appear...  The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London - Стр. 242авторы: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1859Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1860 - Страниц: 590
...water-fowls : standing upright and balancing themselves in their hollow logs, which appear but little larger than themselves, they strike the water furiously with...reeds, which shows the position of the net. A stronger kind and used for the larger ground-fish, is a cage of open basket-work, provided like the former with... | |
 | Charles H. Jones - 1875 - Страниц: 582
...water-fowls: standing upright and balancing themselves in their hollow logs, which appear but little larger than themselves, they strike the water furiously with...waters and in the villages is the dewa, or ' otter' * Captain nurton throughout his book uses the native words and prefixes iu speaking of the land and... | |
 | 1878 - Страниц: 496
...water-fowls : standing upright and balancing themselves in their hollow logs, which appear but little larger than themselves, they strike the water furiously with...reeds, which shows the position of the net. A stronger kind, and used for the larger ground-fish, is a cage of open basketwork, provided like the former with... | |
 | 1888 - Страниц: 228
...water-fowls : standing upright and balancing themselves in their hollow logs, which appear but little larger than themselves, they strike the water furiously with...reeds, which shows the position of the net. A stronger kind, and used for the larger ground-fish, ¡sa cage of open basket-work, provided, like the former,... | |
 | Anna B. Badlam - 1896 - Страниц: 296
...fowls. " Standing upright and balancing themselves in their hollow logs, which appear but little larger than themselves, they strike the water furiously with...of nets and creels. Conspicuous on the waters and the Tillages is the dewa, or otter of Oman, a triangle of stout reeds, which shows the position of... | |
 | Larkin Dunton - 1896 - Страниц: 562
...fowls. "Standing upright and balancing themselves in their hollow logs, which appear but little larger than themselves, they strike the water furiously with...of nets and creels. Conspicuous on the waters and the villages is the dewa, or otter of Oman, a triangle of stout reeds, which shows the position of... | |
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