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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Beautiful World, Bonnet Monkeys, The Dead Chamois, The Wild Cat, 0 PAGE. 16 19 21 23 A Stampede on the Prairie, Desperate Battle between an Elk and Wolves, A Narrow Escape, • Elephant and Young, • A Marauder and his Captive, 0 25 27 29 31 33 The Great Albatross, .

The Long-clawed Iguana, Curious Horse-fish, G The Shooting-fish Bringing Down a Fly, An Unequal Contest, . • Shark-fishing on the Coast of Florida, . 0 Animals, Reptiles and Fish of the Tropics, Ostrich Riders of Africa, South American Ostrich and Young, • • 0 Marvellous Feats of Horsemanship among the Kurds, The Great Sea-lizard and Flying-reptile, Battle between Antediluvian Monsters, • Immense Crocodiles of the Ancient Seas, Famous Egyptian Crocodile, A Prairie Dog Town, • Dormouse and Nest, 35 37 39 41 43 • 45 0 0 47 • 49 51 53 • • 55 57 59 0 61 • 63 65 Pranks of the Harvest Mouse, Androcles and the Lion, Heifer Seized by an Immense Lion, Hunting Shell-fish and Sea-birds' Eggs, Deadly Fight in a Jungle, .

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