 | 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...according to the tradition of their ancestors, there once arrived amongst them men with tails a meter long and as thick as a man's arm. This tail was not...when the fish gave out they all perished, leaving no descendants.3 These fables and other similar nonsense have been handed down to the natives by their... | |
 | Allen Johnson - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...men wished to sit down, they had consequently to have a seat with an open bottom; and if there were none, they had to dig a hole more than a cubit deep to hold their tails and allow them to rest." If any one be disposed to doubt these stories let him ponder well what Peter Martyr says : " Each may... | |
 | Herbert Eugene Bolton - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...men wished to sit down, they had consequently to have a seat with an open bottom; and if there were none, they had to dig a hole more than a cubit deep to hold their tails and allow them to rest." If any one be disposed to doubt these stories let him ponder well what Peter Martyr says : " Each may... | |
 | John Reed Swanton - 1922 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...according to the tradition of their ancestors, there once arrived amongst them men with tails a meter long and as thick as a man's arm. This tail was not...when the fish gave out they all perished, leaving no descendants.3 These fables and other similar nonsense have been handed down to the natives by their... | |
 | 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...according to the tradition of their ancestors, there once arrived amongst them men with tails a meter long and as thick as a man's arm. This tail was not...tails and allow them to rest. Their fingers were as broad as they were long, and their skin was rough, almost scaly. They ate nothing but raw fish, and... | |
 | 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...men wished to sit down, they had consequently to have a seat with an open bottom; and if there were none, they had to dig a hole more than a cubit deep to hold their tails and allow them to rest." If any one be disposed to doubt these stories let him ponder well what Peter Martyr says : ' ' Each... | |
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This tail was not movable like those of the quadrupeds, but formed one mass as we see is the case with fish and crocodiles, and was as hard as a bone. When these men wished to sit down, they had consequently to have a seat with an open bottom ; and if... 