The Dragon
The Dragon (FIG Draco OR FLYING LIZARD)
FIG. 33. Draco, OR FLYING LIZARD FROM SINGAPORE. (After N. B. Dennys.) THE dragon is defined in the Encyclopædia Britannica for 1877 as…
The Dragon: Europe
Among the earliest classics of Europe, its existence is asserted as a scientific fact, and accepted by poets as a sound basis for…
The Dragon: Book
Southey, in his Commonplace Book, pityingly alludes to this passage, saying, "He believes in dragons and griffins as having heretofore…
The Dragon: Pliny
A somewhat inexplicable habit is ascribed to the dragon in Book ix.* : "When the draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the…
The Dragon: Zaledj
While El Edrisi says : "On peut encore citer le serpent de Zaledj dont parlent Ben Khordadébe, l'auteur du Livre des Merveilles, et divers…
The Dragon: Juba
It is doubtful whether large serpents, or real dragons, are referred to by Pliny in the following interesting passages which I give at…
The Dragon: Quedah
Captain Sherard Osborn, in his description of Quedah in * Broderip, Leaves from the Note Book of a Naturalist, p. 357. + Australasia, p…
The Dragon: Malay
Unfortunately the exciting story of a serpent, between forty and fifty feet in length, which I extract from the North China Daily News of…
The Dragon: Voyage
Mr. McLeod, in the Voyage of the Alceste, states that during a captivity of some months at Whidah, on the coast of Africa, he had…
The Dragon: Darling
That harmless snakes of from twelve to fourteen feet in length occur abundantly in Northern Australia is generally known; but it is only of…
The Dragon: Moffatt
Mr. Moffatt learnt personally from a Mr. Beveridge, son of Mr. Peter Beveridge, of Swan Hill station, that he had actually seen one, and…
The Dragon: Herodotus
To my mind, Herodotus speaks without the slightest doubt upon the subject in the following passages. "Arabia* is the last of inhabited…
The Dragon: Moses
Josephus* unmistakably affirms his belief in the existence of flying serpents, in his account of the stratagem which Moses adopted in…
The Dragon: Egypt
Cicero, again, speaks of the ibis as being a very large bird, with strong legs, and a horny long beak, which destroys a great number of…
The Dragon: Government
Similar instances of failure could be easily multiplied. It is found, as with us, that one of the chief causes of non-success is the fact…
The Dragon: China
I feel bound to refer, although of course without attaching any very great weight of evidence to them, to the numerous stories popular in…
The Dragon: Arabia
This is copied by Gesner, who repeats the story of its flying out of Arabia into Egypt.† I attach considerable importance to the short…
The Dragon: Hesiod
The poets of Greece and Rome introduce the dragon into their fables, as an illustration, when the type of power and ferocity is sought for…
The Dragon: Ovid
Ovid* locates the dragon slain by Cadmus in Bœotia, near the river Cephisus. He speaks of it as being hid in a cavern, adorned with crests…
The Dragon: Phryxus
Diodorus Siculus disposes of the Colchian dragon and the golden-fleeced ram in a very summary manner, as follows :- "It is said that…
The Dragon: Parthians
Several nations, as the Persians, Parthians, Scythians, &c., bore dragons on their standards: whence the standards themselves were called…
The Dragon: Celtic
The dragon plays an important part in Celtic mythology. Among the Celts, as with the Romans, it was the national standard.
The Dragon: Wantley
Among the latest surviving beliefs of this nature may be cited the dragon of Wantley (Wharncliffe, Yorkshire), who was slain by More of…
The Dragon: Collection
For instance, Pigafetta, in a report of the kingdom of Congo,* " gathered out of the discourses of Mr. E. Lopes, a * The Harleian…
The Dragon: Aldrovandus
Ulysses Aldrovandus, who published a large folio volume on serpents and dragons, entirely believed in the existence of the latter, and…
The Dragon: Styria
He instances Gesner as saying that, in 1543, he understood that a kind of dragon appeared near Styria, within the confines of Germany…
The Dragon: Kircher
Lacus Lucernen pars Lacus Pilati Mons Pilati FIG. 39.--THE DRAGONS OF MOUNT PILATE. (From the "Mundus Subterraneus" of Athanasius Kircher.)…
The Dragon (LIANUS DE NATURA ANIMALIUM)
ÆLIANUS DE NATURA ANIMALIUM.