Introduction

Introduction

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

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…