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.

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And

19 pages in this part of Mythical Monsters.

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And

THE NEW WORLD.

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Chinese

The Chinese ambassador at Berlin, Li Fang-pau, has read and translated the inscription, which states that three pieces of linen gauze are…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Africa

The fleets of King Solomon penetrated at least to India, and detached squadrons* probably coasted from island to island along the Malay…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Paradise

While there can be little question that the islands and land of Wák Wák are respectively some of the Sunda islands, New Guinea, and the…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Nights

This view is to an extent strengthened by Wák Wák being the home of the lovely maiden captured by Hasan (in the charming story of Hasan of…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Lane

It may be noted that this identification of Wák Wák is in opposition to the view entertained by some commentators; for example, Professor…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Japan

Jacks, in his report to the Queensland Government, published March or April of 1880, reports no paying gold in Yorke's peninsula. One…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Mexico

For instance, a proficient Aztec scholar, Senor Altamiranot of Mexico, argues that the Aztecs were a race, originating in the unsubmerged…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Falb

Again, "Dr. Rudolf Falb* discovers that the language spoken by the Indians in Peru and Bolivia, especially in Quichua and Aymara, exhibits…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Atlantic

Amongst others, Captain Don Antonio del Rio, who described the ruins of an ancient city in Guatemala, believed that they were the relics of…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Japanese

Colonel B. Kennon, as an evidence of the possibility of junks performing long ocean voyages, adduces the instance of a Japanese junk picked…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Palæozoic

The former, in that chapter of island life devoted to the permanence of continents, dwells forcibly upon Dr. Darwin's inference from the…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Wallace

I am not aware whether Dr. Darwin has expressed himself more authoritatively on this point in later works, or whether the whole question…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Challenger

This view has, however, been reduced in its proportions by Dr. Carpenter, who has levelled the results of the recent researches by the…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Donelly

Mr. A. R. Grote suggests that it is simply a myth founded on the observation of low-lying clouds in a sun-flushed sky, which gave the…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Midas

OLD AND NEW WORLD MYTHS. his great-grandfather Dropidas, who had heard it from Solon, who had it from the Egyptian priests of Sais.* Ælian…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Sieh

It is related of Sieh Ngan that, at the time when the capital was menaced by the advancing forces of Fukien, he sat one day over a game of…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: Marco

Compare with this the account given by Marco Polo of the same custom prevalent among the Miau-tze, or aborigines of China, as distinguished…

On the Translation of Myths Between the Old And: China

Another coincidence, although perhaps of minor value, will be seen in the dresses of the soldiers of China and Mexico, as noted in the…

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