Travellers' Tales: A Book of MarvelsG. Routledge, 1883 - 358 pages |
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... length of time . " " The whale , " says Olaus Magnus , " has over its skin a sur- face , which is like to the sand which is on the sea - shore . From which circumstance , when his back is raised above the waves , it is thought by ...
... length of time . " " The whale , " says Olaus Magnus , " has over its skin a sur- face , which is like to the sand which is on the sea - shore . From which circumstance , when his back is raised above the waves , it is thought by ...
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... length to a hundred cubits ; Onesicritus , to one hundred and fifty ; and Juba , to two hundred cubits . But these statements are modesty itself , compared with those of other writers . " In the Indian seas , " says Pliny , " there are ...
... length to a hundred cubits ; Onesicritus , to one hundred and fifty ; and Juba , to two hundred cubits . But these statements are modesty itself , compared with those of other writers . " In the Indian seas , " says Pliny , " there are ...
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... length he was wounded , struck down , and made prisoner , together with fifty of his companions . The Spartans had but little generosity in their composition , particu- larly towards one who had inflicted upon them so much loss and ...
... length he was wounded , struck down , and made prisoner , together with fifty of his companions . The Spartans had but little generosity in their composition , particu- larly towards one who had inflicted upon them so much loss and ...
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... length , and five fingers large ! " The old superstition , too , about the skin of a serpent curing diseases , is referred to in the third volume of Elliott's " Asiatic Sketches . " " The skin of the snake , called Burrawar , " he says ...
... length , and five fingers large ! " The old superstition , too , about the skin of a serpent curing diseases , is referred to in the third volume of Elliott's " Asiatic Sketches . " " The skin of the snake , called Burrawar , " he says ...
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... length of the voyage , it is probable that the whole of them would straightway have been put to death . The history of Sataspes , of which we shall speak presently , illustrates this . If the particulars of the story are sifted and ...
... length of the voyage , it is probable that the whole of them would straightway have been put to death . The history of Sataspes , of which we shall speak presently , illustrates this . If the particulars of the story are sifted and ...
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Page 325 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 9 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 156 - Mebalwe fired at him before I could, and the ball struck the rock on which the animal was sitting. He bit at the spot struck, as a dog does at a stick or stone thrown at him ; then leaping away, broke through the opening circle and escaped unhurt. The men were afraid to attack him, perhaps on account of their belief in witchcraft.
Page 268 - Quito, are about fourteen feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other, and the smallest only eight.
Page 157 - Creator for lessening the pain of death. Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head...
Page 156 - Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Page 286 - Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries.
Page 122 - For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey ; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Page ii - Club who shall not have travelled out of the British Islands to a distance of at least 500 miles from London in a direct line.
Page 156 - Seeing we could not get them to kill one of the lions, we bent our footsteps toward the village ; in going round the end of the hill, however, I saw one of the beasts sitting on a piece of rock as before, but this time he had a little bush in front. Being about thirty yards off', I took a good aim at his body through the bush, and fired both barrels into it. The men then called out, ' He is shot, he is shot 1 ' Others cried, ' He has been shot by another man too; let us go to him!