Curious Creature
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共 20 段- Megasthenes places among the Nomades of India, a people who
- Newspapers for 1866 tell us that General Milroy, who had bee
- She was aged twelve years, and came from the Canary Isles, t
- “_Cadmus_ hereupon made proclamation, that he would give a v
- “The Onocentaur is a monstrous beast;
- “When they are to fight they whet their horne upon a stone,
- Topsell goes through the usual stories of bears licking thei
- “The medicinall uses of this beast are these: first, (as _Pl
- When not taken from living specimens, or skins, the artists
- “The snake, when the membrane which covers its body, has bee
- Ser Marco Polo, speaking of Madagascar, says:--“’Tis said th
- Of this bird, the Kingfisher, Aristotle thus discourses:--“T
- And the same story is told in the First Voyage of Sindbad th
- is probably the Thresher whale. Pliny thus describes it:--“T
- Writing on the lower phases of Marine Animal life, he says:-
- I think the verdict may be given that its existence, althoug
- “_Frotho_, a Danish Champion and a King, scarce being past h
- “There be also certaine little dragons called in _Arabia_, _
- “Now this, and nought else, is the truth about the Salamande
- Leucrocotta, the (see also _Manticora_), 159, 160.