Kiyemon, to make money out of his countrymen's passion for whatever is odd and strange.* He contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the creature... The life of P.T. Barnum, by himself. Author's ed - Side 213av Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 415 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| Charles W. Vincent, James Mason - 1842 - 346 sider
...contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, so neatly, as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the...he derived considerable pecuniary profit from his cunning in more ways than one. The exhibition of the sea-monster to Japanese curiosity paid well ;... | |
| 1841 - 314 sider
...contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the...productive was the assertion that the half-human fish bad spoken during the few minutes it existed out of its native element, predicting a certain number... | |
| Ph. Fr Siebold - 1841 - 448 sider
...contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, so neatly, as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the...he derived considerable pecuniary profit from his cunning in more ways than one. The exhibition of the sea-monster to Japanese curiosity paid well ;... | |
| Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1841 - 712 sider
...contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, BO neatly, aa to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the...he derived considerable pecuniary profit from his cunning in nice ways than one. The exhibition of the' sea.mons*cr to Japanese curiosity pa'd well;... | |
| Philipp Franz von Siebold - 1841 - 444 sider
...shortly after being taken out of the water; and he derived considerable pecuniary profit from his cunning in more ways than one. The exhibition of the sea-monster...but yet more productive was the assertion that the half human fish, having spoken during the few minutes it existed out of its native element, had predicted... | |
| 1850 - 216 sider
...contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish so neatly as to di'fy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the...he derived considerable pecuniary profit from his cunning in more ways than one. The exhibition of the sea-monster to Japanese curiosity paid well ;... | |
| Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 426 sider
...contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the...device in more ways than one. The exhibition of the sea monster to Japanese curiosity paid well; but yet more productive was tl\e assertion that the half-human... | |
| Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 426 sider
...contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower, half of a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the...device in more ways than one. The exhibition of the sea monster to Japanese curiosity paid well; but yet more productive was the assertion that the half-human... | |
| Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 168 sider
...contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the...of the water; and he derived considerable pecuniary pi-oflt from his device in more ways than one. The exhibition of the sea monster to Japanese curiosity... | |
| Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 184 sider
...a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary inspeetion. He then gave out that he had eaught the ereature alive in his net, but that it had died shortly after being taken out of the water ; and he derived eonsiderable peeuniary profit from his deviee in more ways than one. The exhibition of the sea monster... | |
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