Curious Creatures in Zoology. Ashton John

Curious Creatures in Zoology

tail of a bull. Though in form rather resembling the satyrs, and in fondness for, and in association with the cattle, the rustic deity Pan, yet in his companionship with Gizdhubar, and his strange death, he approaches nearer the Centaur Chiron, who was the companion of Heracles.

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1

Supposed to be Sumatra.

2

γης κλειθρον, meaning the limit or boundary of the earth.

3

The Gryphon must not be confounded with the Griffin, as will be seen later on.

4

The Roman cubit was eighteen inches, so that these men were nearly eight feet high.

5

From ἀπὸ τοῦ μονοῦ κώλου, “from having but one leg.”

6

From Σκιαποῦς, “making a shadow with his foot.”

7

Sparrow footed, from στροῦθος, a sparrow.

8

Probably cotton.

9

Or long livers, from μακρὸς, “long,” and βίος, “life.”

10

A palm was three inches, so that these men would be eight feet high.

11

From Γυμνητὴς, one who takes

1

Supposed to be Sumatra.

2

γης κλειθρον, meaning the limit or boundary of the earth.

3

The Gryphon must not be confounded with the Griffin, as will be seen later on.

4

The Roman cubit was eighteen inches, so that these men were nearly eight feet high.

5

From ἀπὸ τοῦ μονοῦ κώλου, “from having but one leg.”

6

From Σκιαποῦς, “making a shadow with his foot.”

7

Sparrow footed, from στροῦθος, a sparrow.

8

Probably cotton.

9

Or long livers, from μακρὸς, “long,” and βίος, “life.”

10

A palm was three inches, so that these men would be eight feet high.

11

From Γυμνητὴς, one who takes much bodily exercise.

12

Mirage.

13

14

In Greek, Τοπάζω, means to guess, divine, or conjecture.

15

Burn.

16

Breast.

17

At war.

18

From τρεις, three, σπιθαμὰι, spans.

19

Other editions say six or seven years.

20

See his letters dated September 1888, which arrived in England early in April 1889.

21

Ox horns, horn cups.

22

A lake between Macedonia and Thrace.

23

The fishermen of lake Prasias still have lake dwellings as in the time of Herodotus.

24

The most abundant were the oyster, mussel, cockle, and periwinkle.

25

Transactions of the Ethnological Society, 1866, vol. iv., p. 34.

26

Thyrsi.

27

The italics are mine. – J. A.

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