Mythical Monsters

Charles Gould, geological surveyor of Tasmania, spent 400 pages and 93 engravings arguing that dragons, sea-serpents and unicorns are not inventions but memories — real animals, seen, feared, and distorted by time.

Introduction

10 pages in this part of Mythical Monsters.

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…

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