 | Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney - Africa, Central - 1826 - 452 pages
...without the slightest appearance of vegetation, and a little branch of the suag t was brought me here * Several of our camels are drunk to-day : their eyes...pass into the spirituous fermentation in the stomach. — WO t Capparis Sodada. VOL. I. C as a comfort and curiosity. On the following day we had alternately... | |
 | Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney - Africa, Central - 1826 - 562 pages
...and here we halted for the night.* * Several of our camels are drunk to-day: their eyes arc henvy, and •want animation ; gait staggering, and every...probably pass into the spirituous fermentation in the ttomach. — WO Drc. 22. — We moved before daylight, passing some rough sand hills, mixed with red... | |
 | Dixon Denham - 1828 - 522 pages
...whose perfect and regular teeth bespoke them young, were particularly shocking ; their arms still re* Several of our camels are drunk to-day: their eyes...probably pass into the spirituous fermentation in the stomach.—WO mained clasped round each other as they had expired ; although the flesh had long since... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...heavy, and lost their animation; their gait was staggering 1 , and every now and then they fell, like a man in a state of intoxication. It arose from eating dates after drinking water—these probably passing into the spirituous fermentation in the stomach. Every day I live convinces... | |
 | Robert Huish - Adams, Robert - 1836 - 824 pages
...the camels during this day were drunk — their eyes heavy, and wanting their usual animation ; their gait staggering, and every now and then falling, as a man in a state of intoxication. This arose from eating dates after drinking water ; these probably pass into a spirituous fermentation... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 640 pages
...to intoxication without drinking stimulating liquors. " Several of oar camels," says Dr. Oudney, " are drunk to-day. Their eyes are heavy, and want animation...then falling as a man in a state of intoxication." This arose, according to the doctor, from eating dates after drinking water ; and he accounts for the... | |
 | John Forbes - 1847 - 664 pages
...Mitscherlich ; it is a circumstance related in a note by the late Dr. Oudney, in his African travels : " Several of our camels are drunk to-day ; their eyes...into the spirituous fermentation in the stomach." Mere experience, in the ordinary sense of the expression, is not calculated any more than in the case... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 pages
...liable to intoxication without drinking stimulating liquors. ' Several of our camels/ says Dr. Oudney, ' are drunk to-day. Their eyes are heavy, and want animation...then falling as a man in a state of intoxication.' This arose, according to the doctor, from eating dates after drinking water ; and he accounts for the... | |
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Several of our camels are drunk to-day: their eyes are heavy, and want animation; gait staggering, and every now and then, falling as a man in a state of intoxication. 