 | Charles Darwin - 1989 - Страниц: 452
...When I landed at Chatham Island, I could not 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; one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning,... | |
 | Justin Gerlach - 1998 - Страниц: 51
...-coast; and the Spaniards by following them up, first discovered the watering-places, when I landed at Chatham Island, I could not imagine what animal travelled...spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures, one set earlier travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their... | |
 | Max Lungarella - 2007 - Страниц: 408
...wells down to the sea-coast. When I landed at Fumiya Island, / could not imagine what animal traveled so methodically along well-chosen tracks. Near the...it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these creatures, one set eagerly traveling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after... | |
 | Peter Young - 2003 - Страниц: 212
...sea-coast; and the Spaniards by following them up, first discovered the watering-places. When I landed at Chatham Island, I could not 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;... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1850 - Страниц: 780
...tracks. Near the springs it was a curious spectacle, he observes, to behold many of these great monsters, one set eagerly travelling onwards, with outstretched...another set returning, after having drunk their fill, lie remarked that, when the tortoise arrives at the spring, it buries its head in the water above the... | |
 | Ernest Ingersoll - 1921 - Страниц: 478
...was a curious spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures, — one set eagerly traveling onward with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill." In former days single vessels carried away as many as seven hundred tortoises, one frigate, it is said,... | |
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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. 
