| 1874 - 588 oldal
...floating on the water at a short distance, they rowed towards it, supposing it to be a large sail or the debris of a wreck. On reaching it, one of the...''gaff," when immediately it showed signs of life, reared a parrot-like beak, which they declare was "as big as a six gallon keg," with which it struck... | |
| Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1876 - 444 oldal
...some object floating on the water, they rowed towards it, supposing it to be a large sail, or a wreck. One of the men struck it with his ' gaff,' when immediately it reared a parrot-like beak, which they declare was as big ' as a sixgallon keg,' with which it struck... | |
| Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller - 1878 - 120 oldal
...in a small punt near Belle Isle, Conception Bay, about nine miles from St. John's, Newfoundland. " Observing some object floating on the water at a short...the surrounding water for a considerable distance." Fortunately these fishermen preserved a portion of what had been chopped from the tentacular arms,... | |
| 1879 - 1038 oldal
...towards it, supposing it to be a large sail or the debrix of a wreck. On reaching it one of the шеи struck it with his 'gaff',' when immediately it showed signs of life, reared a parrot-like beak, which they declare was 'as big as a six-gallon keg/ with which it struck... | |
| United States. Bureau of Fisheries - 1882 - 1038 oldal
...they rowed towards it, supposing it to be a large sail or tUe debris of a wreck. On reaching it cue of the men struck it with his 'gaff,' when immediately it showed signs of life, reared a parrot-like beak, which they declare was 'as big as a six-gallon keg,' with which it struck... | |
| Henry Lee - 1883 - 124 oldal
...distance, they rowed towards it, supposing it to be the debris of a wreck. On reaching it one of them struck it with his " gaff," when immediately it showed...two tentacular arms, as if to seize its antagonists. The other man, named Theophilus Picot, though naturally alarmed, severed both arms with an axe as they... | |
| 1883 - 718 oldal
...distance, they rowed towards it, supposing it to be the debris of a wreck. On reaching it one of them struck it with his " gaff," when immediately it showed...two tentacular arms, as if to seize its antagonists. The other man, named Theophilus Picot, though naturally alarmed, severed both arms with an axe as they... | |
| 1874 - 536 oldal
...floating on the water at a short distance, they rowed towards it, supposing it to be a large sail or the debris of a wreck. On reaching it, one of the..." gaff," when immediately it showed signs of life, reared a parrotlike beak, which they declare was " as big as a six-gallon keg," with which it struck... | |
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