 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1879 - 452 pages
...walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes — that is, three hundred and sixty yards • in the hour, or four miles a day, allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. They were at this time (October) laying their eggs. The female, where the soil is sandy, deposits them... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes ; that is, three hundred and sixty yards in the hour, or four miles a day, allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 pages
...tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 574 pages
...tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1909 - 564 pages
...tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During /'the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar... | |
 | William Healey Dall - Pulmonata - 1913 - 660 pages
...tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or... | |
 | William Beebe - Galapagos Islands - 1924 - 614 pages
...tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day, allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or... | |
 | Natural history - 1926 - 1230 pages
...tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or... | |
 | California Academy of Sciences - Natural history - 1926 - 686 pages
...tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes, that is 360 yards in the hour, or four miles a day — allowing a little time for it to eat on the road. During the breeding season, when the male and female are together, the male utters a hoarse roar or... | |
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... much sooner than would be expected. The inhabitants, from observing marked individuals, consider that they travel a distance of about eight miles in two or three days. One large tortoise, which I watched, walked at the rate of sixty yards in ten minutes,... 
