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" 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 213
av Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 415 sider
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The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

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 ;...
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Manners and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century

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...
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Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century

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 ;...
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The Chinese Repository, Volum 10

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;...
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Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century

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...
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The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and ...

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 ;...
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Life of P. T. Barnum

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...
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The Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself, Including His Golden Rules for ...

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...
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The autobiography of P.T. Barnum

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...
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Barnum, the Yankee showman, and prince of humbugs. Written by himself

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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