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...Tyrolese colonel of engineers, a medical officer (probably Mendrici), Lieut. O'Bannon, U. S. Marines, Midshipman Pascal Peck, U. S. Navy, a Marine non-commissioned officer, six Marine privates, 25 cannoneers (including three officers), 38 Greeks (including two officers), Hamet, a friendly Arab, and 90 men, an Arabian cavalry detachment under Sheik El Tahik and about 200 footmen and camel drivers, 107 camels and a few asses...
With the publication of The Arabian Nights five years before his death in 1890, Burton became a literary sensation, was knighted by Queen Victoria-not for his embarrassingly faithful translation but for his explorations. His next effort, a translation of The Scented Garden, was to make "Mrs. Grundy howl." But the storm he foresaw over its publication broke instead over Isabel when horrified litterateurs, among them Burton's close crony Swinburne, learned that immediately after Burton's death she had destroyed the manuscript along with his diaries for 40 years...
Familiar to almost every schoolboy is the Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on its jagged cliffs. Last week one G. H. Gray. Lloyd's agent at Bridlington, England, declared that he had discovered a modern parallel to this myth...
...asserting that Robert Wadlow exceeds all giants in Medical History, Dr. Humberd escapes giving a direct lie to the Bible (Goliath, 9 ft. 9 in. ; KingOg of Bashan, 9 ft.) ; to Roman Pliny (who reported that an Arabian giant brought to Rome was 9 ft. 9 in. tall) ; to Jewish Josephus and Roman Vitellius (both reported a Jew named Eleazar...
...vegetable matter, probably snakes and lizards too. In Madagascar during the past century, several nearly complete skeletons and many fragments have been found. Scholars suspect that Aepyornis titan may have given rise to the legend of a great bird called the roc, which is told in the Arabian Nights. About 25 football-sized Aepyornis titan eggs exist in various museums. Not content with possessing one of the finest specimens known, Collector Ray last week declared his belief that his egg belongs to another and larger species than that represented by other eggs. If he is right his egg is unique...