Introduction
Introduction
ERRATUM. p. 9, note, for Mr. Goodwin Austen read Colonel Godwin Austen. MYTHICAL MONSTERS.
Introduction: Pinto
Ferdinand Mendez Pinto quaintly observes, in one of his earlier chapters, "I will not speak of the Palace Royal, because I saw it but on…
Introduction: Audubon
Audubon was similarly accused by botanists of having invented the yellow water-lily, which he figured in his Birds of the South under the…
Introduction: Japanese
FIG. 1. FISHERMAN ATTACKED BY OCTOPUS. (Facsimile from a drawing by Hokusai, a celebrated Japanese artist who lived about the beginning of…
Introduction: Sanskrit
And again: "It may be of interest to give one other extract in order to show how well, apart from his men with, and his monkeys without…
Introduction: Science
So Ctesias attacked Herodotus. The very existence of * Max Müller, Science of Language, 4th edition, p. 163-165. London, † Science of…
Introduction: Bird
The lilliputian forests from which the royal navy was constructed contained even large trees in comparison with the dwarf oaks of Mexico…
Introduction: Greek
The Greek, the Celt, and the Viking, descended from the same Aryan ancestors, though all drawing from the same sources their inspirations…
Introduction: Authors
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SOME AUTHORS WRITING ON, AND WORKS RELATING TO NATURAL HISTORY, TO WHICH REFERENCES ARE MADE IN THE PRESENT VOLUME…
Introduction: Strabo
Megasthenes-About в.c. 300. In time of Seleucus Nicator. His work entitled Indica is only known by extracts in those of Strabo, Arrian, and…