 | Bombay Geographical Society - 1860 - 276 Seiten
...the inside, and the whole covered with brown hair or down. As soon as this plague appears, and its buzzing is heard, all the cattle forsake their food...they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger. • * * The camel even is not capable to sustain the violent punctures the fly makes with his pointed... | |
 | John Kitto - 1863 - 526 Seiten
...to believe it proceeds, at least in part, from a vibration made with the three hairs at the snout. As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing...with fatigue, fright, and hunger. No remedy remains but to leave the black earth [where they breed] and hasten down to the sands of Atbara ; and there... | |
 | 1868 - 852 Seiten
...Astaboras and the Nile. ' As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard,' Bruce says, ' all the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly...they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger.' The camel, the elephant, and the rhinoceros are liable to the attacks of the Z., as well as the ox;... | |
 | 1868 - 858 Seiten
...Astaboras and the Nile. ' As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard,' Bruce says, ' all the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly...they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger.' The camel, the elephant, and the rhinoceros are liable to the attacks of the Z., as well as the ox;... | |
 | 1869 - 850 Seiten
....iliorae aud the Nile. ' As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard,' Bruce says, ' all the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly...they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger.' The camel, the elephant, and the rhinoceros are liable to the attacks of the Z., as well as the ox... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1869 - 818 Seiten
...than a bee, " whenever it makes its appearance in swarms, as it always does, and even as soon as its buzzing is heard, all the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly about, till they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger.'' Even the elephant flies before it, or rolls... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1876 - 424 Seiten
...hog's bristle ; its legs are serrated in the inside, and the whole covered with brown hair or down. As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing...cattle forsake their food, and run wildly about the country. This peculiar fly is about the size of a wasp, with an orange , coloured body, with black... | |
 | 1886 - 856 Seiten
...plague appears, and their buzzing is heard,' Bruce says, ' all the cattle forsake their food, and ran wildly about the plain till they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger.' The camel, the elephant, and the rhinoceros are liable to the attacks of the Z., as well as the ox;... | |
 | 1897 - 890 Seiten
...Astaboras and the Nile. ' As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard,' Bruce says, ' all the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly...plain till they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, und hunger.' The camel, the elephant, and the rhinoceros are liable to the attacks of the Z , as well... | |
 | Ernest Edward Austen, Hans Jacob Hausen - 1903 - 364 Seiten
...the inside ; and the whole covered with brown hair, or down. As soon as this plague appears, and its buzzing is heard, all the cattle forsake their food,...with fatigue, fright, and hunger. No remedy remains, but to leave the black earth, and to hasten down to the sands of Atbara ; and there they remain while... | |
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As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard, all the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly about the plain, till they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger. 
