 | 1847 - 420 pagina’s
...packed that once removed no skill can replace them. It is no easy matter to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument and the exercise of considerable...witness, where the monkey, forgetful of everything else, pounding down the nut, with might and main, in a fever of excitement struck it with tremendous force... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 pagina’s
...them. It is no easy matter to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument, and the exercise ol considerable strength. Yet we were assured by an intelligent...he had been witness, where the monkey, forgetful of every thing else, pounding down the nut with might and main, in a fever of excitement, struck it with... | |
 | 1848 - 572 pagina’s
...packed that, once removed, no skill can replace them. It is no easy matter to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument and the exercise of considerable...them by striking them upon stones or the limbs of iron-hke trees. — Voyage up the Amazon. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. M. Conscience, whose... | |
 | 1848 - 636 pagina’s
...packed, that once removed no skill can replace them. It is no easy matter to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument and the exercise of considerable...intelligent friend at the Barra of the Rio Negro that the Guaridas, or howling monkeys, are in the habit of breaking them by striking them upon stones or the... | |
 | 1848 - 796 pagina’s
...packed, that, once removed, no skill can replace them. It is no easy matter to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument, and the exercise of considerable...were assured by an intelligent friend, at the Barra Rio Negro, that the Guaribas, or howling monkeys, are in the habit of breaking them, by striking them... | |
 | 1848 - 644 pagina’s
...to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument and the exercise of considerable strength j yet we were assured by an intelligent friend at the Barra of the Eio Negro that the Guaribus, or howling monkeys, are in the habit of breaking them by striking them... | |
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The shell of these is nearly half an inch in thickness, and contains the triangular nuts so nicely packed that once removed no skill can replace them. It is no easy matter to break this tough covering, requiring some instrument and the exercise of considerable... 