 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 590 pagine
...running south, which continues with such singular force and in the same direction at all seasons.4 'Tis said that in those other Islands to the south,...enormous size ; so big in fact that its wings covered an extent of 30 paces, and its quills were 12 paces long, and thick in proportion. And it is so strong... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 878 pagine
...running south, which continues with such singular force and in the same direction at all seasons.4 'Tis said that in those other Islands to the south,...enormous size ; so big in fact that its wings covered an extent of 30 paces, and its quills were 12 paces long, and thick in proportion. And it is so strong... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 668 pagine
...are unable to visit because this strong current prevents their return, is found the bird Gryplion, which appears there at certain seasons. The description...enormous size ; so big in fact that its wings covered an extent of 30 paces, and its quills were 12 paces long, and thick in proportion. And it is so strong... | |
 | 1875 - 562 pagine
...however, entirely different from what our stories and pictures make it. For persons who had been there and seen it told Messer Marco Polo that it was for all...enormous size ; so big in fact that its wings covered an extent of 30 paces, and its quills were 12 paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so strong... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1881 - 524 pagine
....'.' A TARTAR TENT IN MOTION. 99 account, 'It was for all the world like an eagle, but one, indued, of enormous size ; so big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, v THK ROC, FROM A I'KRSUN DRAWING. and its quills were twelve paces long, and... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1882 - 466 pagine
...twenty-two oxen, eleven abreast. A TARTAR TENT IN MOTION. THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE FAR EAST. account, 'It was for all the world like an eagle, but one,...enormous size; so big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, r THE ROC, FROM A PERSIAN DRAWING. and its quills were twelve paces long, and... | |
 | 1881
...however, entirely different from what our stories and pictures make it. For persons who had been there and seen it told Messer Marco Polo that it was for all...enormous size ; so big in fact that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, and its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Mrs. Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams Winshaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1883 - 752 pagine
...here flourished at wrtain seasons the bird gryphon, which persons who had seen it described as being " for all the world like an eagle, but one indeed of...size — so big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, and its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Mrs. Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams Winshaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1883 - 756 pagine
...nourished at certain seasons the bird gryphon, which persons who had seen it described as being •' for all the world like an eagle, but one indeed of...size — so big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, and its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1883 - 412 pagine
...there, and had seen it, told Messer Marco Polo, that "it was for all the world like an eagle, though one indeed of enormous size — so big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, and its quills were twelve paces long, and thick in proportion. And it was... | |
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Tis said that in those other Islands to the south, which the ships are unable to visit because this strong current prevents their return, is found the bird Gryphon, which appears there at certain seasons. The description given of it is however entirely... 
