 | Charles Darwin - 1879 - Страниц: 232
...districts, are obliged, when thirsty, to travel from a long distance. Hence, broad and well- , beaten paths branch off in every direction from the wells...imagine what animal travelled so methodically along Avellcliosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy - 1979 - Страниц: 438
...long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten paths radiate off in every direction from the wells even down to the sea-coast; and the Spaniards by following...imagine what animal travelled so methodically along the well-chosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these great monsters;... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1984 - Страниц: 508
...long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten paths radiate off in every direction from the wells even down to the sea-coast; and the Spaniards by following...imagine what animal travelled so methodically along the wellchosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these great monsters;... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1989 - Страниц: 452
...long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten paths radiate off in every direction from the wells even down to the sea-coast; and the Spaniards by following...imagine what animal travelled so methodically along the wellchosen tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these great monsters;... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - Страниц: 930
...considerable height. The tortoises, therefore, which frequent the lower districts, when thirsty, are obliged to travel from a long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten...of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. When the... | |
 | Michael Hume Jackson - 1993 - Страниц: 369
...of some islands (Plate 25). Darwin, in The Voyage of the Beagle, describes the scene at a pool thus: Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold...of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. When the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1996 - Страниц: 382
...considerable height. The tortoises, therefore, which frequent the lower districts, when thirsty, are obliged to travel from a long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten...of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. When the... | |
 | Gregory McNamee, Luis Alberto Urrea - 1997 - Страниц: 164
...considerable height. The tortoises, therefore, which frequent the lower districts, when thirsty, are obliged to travel from a long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten...of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. When the... | |
 | Justin Gerlach - 1998 - Страниц: 51
...considerable height. The tortoises, therefore, which frequent the lower districts, when thirsty, are obliged to travel from a long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten...off in every direction from the wells down to the sea -coast; and the Spaniards by following them up, first discovered the watering-places, when I landed... | |
 | Max Lungarella - 2007 - Страниц: 408
...island to the other, as there is a strange system of alternating currents in the rivers of this island. Hence broad and well-beaten paths branch off in every direction from the wells down to the sea-coast. When I landed at Fumiya Island, / could not imagine what animal traveled so methodically along well-chosen... | |
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Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill. 
