 | John Harrington Keene - 1881 - 536 pages
...hole and by giving a shrill sort of whistle has brought out an enormons eel, which has moved abont the surface of the water and eaten with confidence out of its master's hand." A Mr. Walter C. Treyelyan also read a paper some years ago before the Wernerian Natural History Society... | |
 | Sir Francis Galton - 1883 - 434 pages
...the island. These pets were kept in large holes, two or three feet deep, partially filled with water. I have been several times with the young chief, when...surface of the water and eaten with confidence out of his master's hand." [Syria.] — I will conclude this branch of my argument by quoting the most ancient... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1892 - 588 pages
...water. On the sides of these pits they generally remain, excepting when called by the person who feeds them. I have been several times with the young chief...surface of the water and eaten with confidence out of his master's hand." The eel has many enemies, among others the common heron, who, in spite of the slippery... | |
 | Frank Mackie Johnson - 1902 - 776 pages
...FOREST, LAKE, AND RIVER chief when he sat down by the side of the hole, and by giving a shrill sort of a whistle, has brought out an enormous eel, which has...and eaten with confidence out of its master's hand." The consumption of eels in the city of London is enormous, thousands of tons being brought to that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1864 - 762 pages
...kept in largo holes two or three foot deep, partially filled with water. On the sides of these pits they generally remained, excepting when called by...surface of the water and eaten with confidence out of his master's hand.' We have another account of some tame eels given by Sir WC Trevelyan, of which the... | |
 | Douglas L. Oliver - 2002 - 326 pages
...Ellis: "Eels are great favourites, and are tamed, and fed till they attain an enormous size. . . . These pets were kept in large holes, two or three...surface of the water, and eaten with confidence out of his master's hand" (Ellis 1829, 285-86, quoted in Oliver 1974, 286). 88 FOOD AND DRINK sharks were... | |
 | 1842 - 528 pages
...the sides of these pits they generally remained, excepting when called by the person who fed them. 1 have been several times with the young chief, when...and eaten with confidence out of its master's hand." Eels are caught in the Thames in wicker baskets, which are attached to a framework of wood and placed... | |
 | James Serpell - 1996 - 320 pages
...the island. These pets were kept in large holes, two or three feet deep, partially filled with water. I have been several times with the young chief, when...surface of the water and eaten with confidence out of his master's hand.18 During a visit to Hawaii in 1773, George Forster wrote: 'the dogs in spite of... | |
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These pets are kept in large holes, two or three feet deep, partially filled with water. On the sides of these pits they generally remained, excepting when called by the person who fed them. I have been several times with the young chief, when he has... 
