Description:Excerpt from A Taxonomic Review of American Long-Tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex)They claim that there is a kind of water shrew living on the ice at sea which is exactly like the common lan'd' shrew' in appearance, but which _is' endowed with demoniac 'quick1-'1ess 'and power to work harm; If one of them. Is disturbed by a person, it darts at the intruder and burrowing under the skin, works about inside at random and gfinally enters the heart and kills him. As a consequence of this belief the hunters are in mortal terror if they chance to meet a shrew 011 the ice at sea, and in one case that I knew of a hunter stood immovable on the ice for several hours 1'1ntil a shrew he hap pened to meet disappeared from sight, whereupion he hurried home, and his friends all agreed that he had had a very narrow escape.' (nelson, 1887, p.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Taxonomic Review of American Long-Tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex) (Classic Reprint). To get started finding A Taxonomic Review of American Long-Tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex) (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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A Taxonomic Review of American Long-Tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex) (Classic Reprint)
Description: Excerpt from A Taxonomic Review of American Long-Tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex)They claim that there is a kind of water shrew living on the ice at sea which is exactly like the common lan'd' shrew' in appearance, but which _is' endowed with demoniac 'quick1-'1ess 'and power to work harm; If one of them. Is disturbed by a person, it darts at the intruder and burrowing under the skin, works about inside at random and gfinally enters the heart and kills him. As a consequence of this belief the hunters are in mortal terror if they chance to meet a shrew 011 the ice at sea, and in one case that I knew of a hunter stood immovable on the ice for several hours 1'1ntil a shrew he hap pened to meet disappeared from sight, whereupion he hurried home, and his friends all agreed that he had had a very narrow escape.' (nelson, 1887, p.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Taxonomic Review of American Long-Tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex) (Classic Reprint). To get started finding A Taxonomic Review of American Long-Tailed Shrews (Genera Sorex and Microsorex) (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.