 | 1892 - 60 pàgines
...'Tis a passing ugly beast to look upon, and is not in the least like that which our stories tell of ; in fact, 'tis altogether different from what we fancied....crows. These are very large birds, and capital for fowling. I may tell you moreover that, when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from... | |
 | John Ashton - 1890 - 364 pàgines
...he : " I may tell you moreover that 1 Oiher editions say, six or seven years. when people bring over pygmies which they allege to come from India, 'tis...as they call them, are manufactured on this Island (Sumatra), and I will tell you how. You see there is on the Island a kind of monkey which is very small,... | |
 | 1892 - 120 pàgines
...'Tis a passing ugly beast to look upon, and is not in the least like that which our stories tell of; in fact, 'tis altogether different from what we fancied....crows. These are very large birds, and capital for fowling. I may tell you moreover that, when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 318 pàgines
...toward the ground. They delight much to abide in mire and mud. 'Tis a passing ugly beast to look upon. There are also monkeys here in great numbers and of...crows. These are very large birds and capital for fowling. I may tell you, moreover, that when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1897 - 580 pàgines
...toward the ground. They delight much to abide in mire and mud. 'T is a passing ugly beast to look upon. There are also monkeys here in great numbers and of...crows. These are very large birds and capital for fowling. Marco confounds the rhinoceros with the fabulous unicorn, as many other writers of the olden... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 768 pàgines
...as being caught in the lap of a virgin ; in fact, 'tis altogether different from what we fancied.5 There are also monkeys here in great numbers and of...that when people bring home pygmies which they allege tocóme from India, 'tis all a lie and a cheat. For those little men, as they call them, are manufactured... | |
 | Edward Luther Stevenson - 1912 - 118 pàgines
...taken, both male and female, differ in no respect as to their form from human beings." Hk. S., p. 19. 3 "I may tell you, moreover, that when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from India, 't is all a lie and a cheat. For those little men, as they call them, are manufactured on this Island,... | |
 | Edward Luther Stevenson, Theobald Fischer - 1912 - 100 pàgines
...taken, both male and female, differ in no respect as to their form from human beings." Hk. S., p. 19. s "I may tell you, moreover, that when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from India, 't is all a lie and a cheat. For those little men, as they call them, are manufactured on this Island,... | |
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I may tell you moreover that when people bring home pygmies which they allege to come from India, 'tis all a lie and a cheat. For those little men, as they call them, are manufactured on this Island, and I will tell you how. You see there is on the Island... 