Museum of Wonders, or Curiosities of the World

A cabinet of curiosities in book form, 1890: monsters of the ancient world, wild animals, queer wanderers in the vasty deep, famous inventions and sublime scenery — assembled to astonish the young and, the preface admits, their elders too.

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A Traveller Saved by Stratagem

self down at the foot of the tree, and did a mile distant, as fast as his feet could not move from the place for four and carry him, and he arrived there in safety. twenty hours. At the end of this time, The perseverance of the Lion was such, becoming parched with thirst, the beast that, it appeared afterwards, he returned went to a spring at some distance, in to the tree, and, finding the man had order to drink. The Hottentot, now, with descended, hunted him by the scent to trepidation, ventured to descend, and ran within three hundred paces of his dwelloff to his home, which was not more than ing.

of mimosas. All were in the East Africa. They were such as were
of mimosas. All were in the East Africa. They were such as were

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