The Cabinet of Curiosities, Or Wonders of the World Displayed: Forming a Repository of Whatever is Remarkable in the Regions of Nature and Art, Extraordinary Events, and Eccentric Biography. With Forty-three IllustrationsPiercy & Reed, 1840 - Curiosities and wonders |
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Page 9
... soon espied the animal himself on the declivity of a naked and widely outstretched hill . It is a rule , when an elephant is thus found , to endeavour to get above him on the hill , to the end that , in case of necessity , the hunter ...
... soon espied the animal himself on the declivity of a naked and widely outstretched hill . It is a rule , when an elephant is thus found , to endeavour to get above him on the hill , to the end that , in case of necessity , the hunter ...
Page 10
... soon put to flight by the elephant rush- ing again from a neighbouring thicket , to vent his wrath once more upon the corpse , already so dreadfully mangled . While he was busied in doing this , however , he was attacked by the ...
... soon put to flight by the elephant rush- ing again from a neighbouring thicket , to vent his wrath once more upon the corpse , already so dreadfully mangled . While he was busied in doing this , however , he was attacked by the ...
Page 25
... soon as he entered his teens he ran away ; and soon afterwards received the name , by which he was best known , of Mulled Sack , from his drinking sack mulled , morning ,. 3 THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES . 25 Mulled Sack.
... soon as he entered his teens he ran away ; and soon afterwards received the name , by which he was best known , of Mulled Sack , from his drinking sack mulled , morning ,. 3 THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES . 25 Mulled Sack.
Page 26
... soon spent : he also robbed the house of the Receiver - General of Reading of £ 6,000 , which he was preparing to send up to town . For this offence Mulled Sack , who was taken , was tried at Read- ing , but acquitted ; it is said , by ...
... soon spent : he also robbed the house of the Receiver - General of Reading of £ 6,000 , which he was preparing to send up to town . For this offence Mulled Sack , who was taken , was tried at Read- ing , but acquitted ; it is said , by ...
Page 38
... Soon after he had been placed with him , he had caused him to be baptized at the parish church of Newington , in the county of Surrey , and , on his death , he was buried at Great Marlow , in Buckinghamshire , in a brick vault , which ...
... Soon after he had been placed with him , he had caused him to be baptized at the parish church of Newington , in the county of Surrey , and , on his death , he was buried at Great Marlow , in Buckinghamshire , in a brick vault , which ...
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