Show ABLE TO GIVE DEADLY SHOCK electric eels eeli found in south america have been provided with strange power the marshy waters of bers bera and ras raa tro jn in south america are tilled filled with innumerable electric eels which con can at pleasure discharge from every part ot of their slimy yellow speckled bodies a deadening shock this species of gymn otna Is about live or six feet in length it Is powerful enough to kill human beings und tile the largest animals when it discharges its nervous organs at one shock in a favorable direction it was once found necessary to change the line of road unwelcome visitor front from across the steppe owing to tile the number of horses which in ili fording a certain rivulet annually fell a sacrifice to those which had accumulated there in ili great numbers all other species of fash shun the vicinity of these formidable creatures even the hie angler when fishing from the high bank Is in dread lest an electric shock should be conveyed in him along tile the moistened ened line |