SENGULAB METHOD OF FISHING. 
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‘Kjuatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and 
Lrowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest 
between animals of so different an organization presents 
t ve 'T striking spectacle. The Indians, provided with 
narpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely • 
f . sorae climb up the trees, the branches of which extend 
uonzontallv over the surface of the water. By their wild 
r l0s ’ an d the length ot their reeds, they prevent the horses 
running away and reaching the bank of the pool, 
stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the 
epeated discharge of their electric batteries. Bor a long 
uceryal they seem likely to prove victorious. Several horses 
• ben ? ath th e violence of the invisible strokes which they 
. cen-e trom all sides, in organs the most essential to life' - 
• na stunned by the force and frequency of the shocks, they 
mS Pea V\ nder H' e water ' 0thers > p™ting, with mane 
raisn T ggard f' ves ^pressing anguish and dismay, 
bv themselves, and endeavour to flee from the storm 
tfL t j- they are overtaken. They are driven back by 
flumK ldlanS mt ° the 11)id(;!le of the water; but a smail 
ti noer succeed m eluding the active vigilence of the 
•sten Tbese regain tKe shore, stumbling at every 
f-itio- and stretc h themselves on the sand, exhausted with 
<,(• ,? ue ’ an d with limbs benumbed by the electric shocks 
rae gymnoti. 
The 11 fi vo minutes two of our horses were drowned 
ben ® e i ,u ei V S five fee * long ’ and Preying itself against the 
of ii; , ie "orses, makes a discharge along the whole extent 
testin P ! leCtr ; C , 0r S au ,-. If L attach® at once the heart, the in- 
Batumi v; lnd , 0 ca3 * iac ^be abdominal nerves. It is 
Powerful If th S effect !' elt by tbe horses should be more 
sauig fi , than tbat Produced upon man by the touch of the 
\hl at ?'. d - v one of h's extremities. The horses are 
> not killed, but only stunned. They are drowned 
e"' 10 impossibility of rising amid the prolon 
iged struggle 
Probably 
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{! the other horses and the eels, 
kiflij, a httle doubt that the fishing would terminate by 
the ininpf CCeSSU ' el - V a11 tIle animals engaged; but by degree^ 
Wearied °- y . ol . tlus lule< l uaI combat diminished, and the 
abundant' 5 mn °ti dispersed. They require along rest, and 
nourishment, to repair the galvanic force which 
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