 | 1844 - 520 pages
...dusty high road. This was especially the case in the northern part of the province of Buenos Ayres. Great numbers of birds, wild animals, cattle, and horses, perished from the want of food and water. One million head of cattle were supposed to have died from want of drink in this one province alone.... | |
 | Science - 1845 - 478 pages
...the case in the northern part of the province of Buenos Ayres, and the southern part of St F6. Very great numbers of birds, wild animals, cattle, and...the want of food and water. A man told me that the deerf used to come into his courtyard to * History of the Abipones, vol. 2., p. 6. t In Capt. Owen's... | |
 | Science - 1845 - 454 pages
...the case in the northern part of the province of Buenos Ayres, and the southern part of St Fe. Very great numbers of birds, wild animals, cattle, and...the want of food and water. A man told me that the deerf used to come into his courtyard to * History of the Abipones, vol. 2., p. 6. t In Capt. Owen's... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - Finance - 1847 - 224 pages
...the ease in the nor thorn part of the province of Buenos Ayres, and the southern part of St. Fe, very great numbers of birds wild animals, cattle, and horses, perished from the want of food and wator. A roan told mo that the deer used to come into his court yard to the wpll which he had been... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...the case in the northern part of the province of Buenos Ayres and the southern part of St. Fe. Very great numbers of birds, wild animals, cattle, and...partridges had hardly strength to fly away when pursued." Captain Owen, in the account of his surveying voyage, relates a similar effect of drought on the elephants,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...the case in the northern part of the province of Buenos Ayres and the southern part of St. Fd. Very great numbers of birds, wild animals, cattle, and...partridges had hardly strength to fly away when pursued." Captain Owen, in the account of his surveying voyage, relates a similar effect of drought on the elephants,... | |
 | 1873 - 526 pages
...animals perished for want of food and water. The deer came into a court-yard to a well which a man had been obliged to dig to supply his own family with water. More than thix, there are localities, as in the Great Desert, where it never rains at all; also within... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1873 - 552 pages
...the casfi in the northern part of the province of Buenos Ayres and the southern part of St. Fe. Very great numbers of birds, wild animals, cattle, and...been obliged to dig to supply his own family with wafer ; and that the partridges had hardly strength to fly away when pursued. The lowest estimation... | |
 | John Knox Laughton - Meteorology - 1873 - 416 pages
...case in the northern part of the province of Buenos Ay res, and the southern part of Santa Fe. Very great numbers of birds, wild animals, cattle, and horses perished from the want of food and water. The lowest estimation of the loss of cattle, in the province of Buenos Ayres alone, was taken at one... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 584 pages
...animals perish"! for want of food and water. The divr came into a court-yard to a well which a man had been obliged to dig to supply his own family with water. More than this, there are localities, as in the Great Desert, where it never rains n' all ; also within... | |
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... so little rain fell, that the vegetation, even to the thistles, failed; the brooks were dried up, and the whole country assumed the appearance of a dusty high road. This was especially the case in the northern part of the province of Buenos Ayres... 
