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Page 389 - Jungle swallowed up the walls,' said Hathi. 'And what more?' said Mowgli. 'As much good ground as I can walk over in two nights from the east to the west, and from the north to the south as much as I can walk over in three nights, the Jungle took.
Page vii - Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part. The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry.
Page 48 - Amen, amen dico tibi, nisi quis renatus fuerit ex aqua et Spiritu Sancto, non potest introire in regnum Dei. Quod natum est ex carne, caro est : et quod natum est ex Spiritu, spiritus est.
Page 140 - Abraham, before spoken of, to whom the angels for forty years administered bread and wine for the sacrament, that all his sons should be shut up in a mountain, and that none should remain except the first born, the heir, and that this should be done for ever to all the sons of the Prester of the country, and his successors : because if this was not so done there would be great difficulty in the country, on account of its greatness, and they would rise up and seize parts of it, and would not obey...
Page 93 - ... country I saw great lords turned out of their lordships, and others put into them, and I saw them together, and they appeared to be good friends. (God knows their hearts...
Page 399 - I want you to send me men, artificers to make images, and printed books, and swords and arms of all sorts for fighting; and also masons and carpenters, and men who make medicines, and physicians, and surgeons to cure illnesses; also artificers to beat out gold and set it, and goldsmiths and silversmiths, and men who know how to extract gold and silver and also copper from the veins...
Page 399 - ... it, and goldsmiths and silversmiths, and men who know how to extract gold and silver and also copper from the veins, and men who can make sheet lead and earthenware; and masters of any trades which are necessary in these kingdoms, also gunsmiths.
Page 72 - When we were in the Seignory of Abrigima, in a place called Aquate, there came such a multitude of locusts as cannot be said. They began to arrive one day about terce [nine] and till night they ceased not to arrive; and when they arrived, they bestowed themselves. On the next day at the hour of prime they began to depart, and at mid-day there was not one, and there remained not a leaf on the trees. At this instant others began to come and stayed like the others to the next day at the same hour; and...
Page 45 - The priests, however, were never allowed more than one wife (Eccl. Aethiop. cap. v. § 3). Alvarez (Lord Stanley's trans, p. 45) seems to say that in places polygamy was common, and was not forbidden by the ' king or magistrates,' but only by the church. Yet ' every man who has more than one wife does not enter the church nor receive the sacrament ; and they hold him to be excommunicated.
Page 348 - ... cows, and are great archers ; and when they are little they dry up the left breast, in order not to impede drawing the arrow. They also say that there is very much gold in this kingdom of the Amazons, and that it comes from this country to the kingdom of Damute, and so it goes to many parts. They say that the husbands of these women are not warriors, and that their wives dispense them from it.