 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - 1841 - 712 sider
...and useful form, for the mere purpose of making money by his countrymen's passion for everything odd and strange.* He 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 creature alive in... | |
 | 1850 - 216 sider
...displayed ingenuity for the mere purpose of making money by his countrymen's passion for everything odd and strange. He contrived to unite the upper half...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 creature alive in his net, but that... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 396 sider
...hononrtvble and useful form than Kiyemon, to make money out of his countrymen's passion for whatever is odd and strange. He contrived to unite the upper half...lower half of a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary PRELIMINARIES. 213 inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the creature alive in his net, but... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 184 sider
...Kiyemon, to make money out of his eountrymen's passion for whatever is odd and strange. He eontrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of 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... | |
 | Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1855 - 180 sider
...iyemon, to make money out of hia countrymen's passion for whatever is odd ami strange. lie contnvedto unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary Eatavia, where it fell into the hands of a shrewd American, who brought it to Kurope, and there, in... | |
 | S. B. Kemish - 1860 - 322 sider
...displayed ingenuity for the mere purpose of making money by his countryman's passion for everything odd and strange. He contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey with the lower half of a fish so neatly as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 374 sider
...displayed ingenuity for the mere purpose of making money by his countrymen's passion for everything odd and strange. He contrived to unite the upper half...inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the creature in his net, but that it had died shortly after being taken out of the -water ; and he derived considerable... | |
 | Morris Robert Werner - 1923 - 432 sider
...and Customs of the Japanese in the Nineteenth Century an account of a Japanese fisherman who joined the upper half of a monkey to the lower half of a fish so deftly that the joint could not be detected. The Japanese then announced to his fellowcountrymen that... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 sider
...honorable and useful form than 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 ol a fish, so neatly as to defy ordinary inspection. He then gave out that he had caught the creature... | |
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Another Japanese fisherman displayed his ingenuity in a less honorable and useful form than Kiyemon, to make money out of his countrymen's passion for whatever is "dd and strange. He contrived to unite the upper half of a monkey to the lower, half of... 