 | English periodicals - 1790 - 566 pages
...brown hair or down. As foon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard, all the cattle forfake their food, and run wildly about the plain, till they...with fatigue, fright, and hunger. No remedy remains, but to leave the black earth, and haften down to the fands of Atbara, and there they remain while che... | |
 | 1790 - 612 pages
...nog's bridle. As foon as this winged aflaffin appears, and his buzzing is heard, the cattle forfake their food, and run wildly about the plain, till they die, worn out with fatigue, affright, and pain. The inhabitants of Melinda, down to Cape Gardefan, to Saba, and the fouth coaft... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1790 - 606 pages
...hog's briftle. As foon as this winged alllilfin appears, and his buzzing is heard, the cattle forfake their food, and run wildly about the plain, till they die, worn out with fatigue, affright, and pain. The inhabitants of Melinda, down to Cape Gardefan, to Saba, and the Ibuth coaft... | |
 | Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - France - 1794 - 542 pages
...equal to that of a hog's bristle. As soon as this winged assassin appears, and his buzzing is heard, the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly about the plain till they die, worn out with fatigue, affright, and pain. The inhabit-* ants of Melinda, down to Cape Gardefau, to Saba, end the south coast... | |
 | James Bruce - Egypt - 1804 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | James Bruce - Egypt - 1805 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | History - 1807 - 1012 pages
...serrated in the inside, and " the whole covered with brown " hair or down. ' As soon as this " plague appears, and their buzzing •• is heard, all the...fright, and hunger. '• No remedy remains for the resU " denls «n such spots, but to leave " the black earth, and haitrnde " to the sands of Atbara,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1004 pages
...serrated in the inside, and " the whole covered with brown " hair or down. As soon as this ' • plague 2; pނ % B[Hcg ^ ӽ % 1є 5 E R& k ?{/ 6 B -yYT Q Y N: 3 &= - | H with fatigue, fright, and hunger. " No remedy remains for the resi• '• dtnts on such spots, but... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1815 - 500 pages
...legs are serrated in the inside, and the whole covered with brown hair or down. As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard, all the cattle...they die, worn out with fatigue, fright and hunger ; for, when once attacked, the body, head and legs break out into large bosses, which swell, break... | |
 | John Leyden - Africa - 1817 - 564 pages
...which'appears to belong to the tabanus tribe. As soon as this pest appears, and their buzzing noise is heard, all the cattle forsake their food, and run...about the plain till they die, worn out with fatigue, terror, and hunger. Camels, and even elephants and rhinoceroses, though the two last coat themselves... | |
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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. 
