 | 1852 - 430 pagini
...certainly terrific ; I can compare it to nothing so well as to the wind howling through rocky caverns. It is a noise so unearthly, that, heard unexpectedly...fill the mind with the most melancholy and fearful forebodings. The forests of the Soliraoens are inhabited by many species of monkeys which are unknown... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1861 - 446 pagini
...the roar is terrific : a naturalist -f- has compared it to the tempest howling through rocky caverns. It is a noise so unearthly, that, heard unexpectedly...fill the mind with the most melancholy and fearful forebodings. A traveller in the western wilds of North America bivouacking on the open prairie, awakened... | |
 | Ramón Páez - 1868 - 562 pagini
...terrific ; a naturalist has compared it to the tempest howling through rocky caverns. It is a voice so unearthly that, heard unexpectedly for the first...time, it would fill the mind with the most melancholy forebodings." * " The Indians pretend," observes Humboldt, that when the araguatos fill the forest... | |
 | Frank Evers Beddard - 1909 - 398 pagini
...creatures with non-descriptive appellations, but because they do howl and awake the echoes of American 41 forests by night. So far-carrying is the howl, that...it appears to be good for food above all monkeys. 42 CHAPTER III The Lemurs : Sub-order Lemuroidea THESE nocturnal creatures, which have got their name... | |
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... it is a noise so unearthly that, heard unexpectedly for the first time, it would fill the mind with the most melancholy and fearful foreboding. 